Chryse Planitia
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Chryse Planitia is a smooth circular plain in the northern equatorial region of Mars close to the Tharsis region to the west, centered at. Chryse Planitia lies partially in the Lunae Palus quadrangle,
Ares Vallis, capture by Viking and edited as a false color image. The channel is 25 km wide and about 1 km deep. It would be quite spectacular to walk down this valley.
Sojourner on Mars PIA01122
Viking 1
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Viking 1 is the first of two spacecraft, along with Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander, sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program. The lander touched down on Mars on July 20, 197
Chryse Planitia
…an ancient shoreline may be present. Chryse basin opens into the North Polar Basin, so if an ocean was present Chryse would have been a large bay. Viking 1 landed in Chryse Planitia in 1976, but its landing site was not near the outflow channels and no fluvial features were visible; the terrain at that…
Lander shell (top) and orbiter
Large Strategic Science Missions Planetary Science DivisionViking 2 → Viking program
Viking aeroshell
Launch of the Viking 1 probe (August 20, 1975)