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Perspective on Mars comes from spacecraft...

Fly By -> Take a few photos

Go into Orbit -> Photograph + Map Planet (global view)

3 Spacecraft landed successfully - 2 in 1976, pathfinder in 1997

[[strikethrough]] a [[planet?]] from orbit [[/strikethrough]] To get perspective on observations of Mars

->Let's see what our planet looks like from orbit

->When I was in the shuttle, 

~200 miles above Earth, circling planet every 90 min

Could look down + see -> sparkling blue oceans
snow-capped mountains
enormous hurricanes,
[[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethorugh]] cities lining coasts

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->Blue Marble... 


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