1965
The first close-up photos of another planet
NASA's Mariner 4 flew past Mars and returned the first close-up photographs ever taken of another planet. The grainy images gave humanity its first real look at the Martian surface.
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2 things science and human progress accomplished on this date.
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2015
New Horizons reaches Pluto
After a nine-year journey, NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto and sent home the first detailed pictures of the distant world. It completed the first survey of every classical planet in our solar system.
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