The Viking Mission Data Book

<BODY BACKGROUND="background.gif" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" TEXT="#000080" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#ff0000"> <IMG SRC="MainPicture.jpg" BORDER="0" WIDTH="487" HEIGHT="282" ALT="Sunset at the Viking Lander 1 landing site." ALIGN="ABSMIDDLE"> <BR> <P><I><FONT SIZE="-1">About the picture : Sunset on Mars at the Viking Lander 1 landing site. Picture 12A240<BR> taken on August 20, 1976, 30 days after landing at about 6:45 PM.</FONT></I> </P> <HR SIZE="3" COLOR="#000080"> <P><I>Welcome to the Viking Mission Data Book. This site tries to be a reference to the 1975 Viking missions to the planet Mars. The four spacecraft, two orbiters and two landers, were then and still are the most ambitious expedition to the Red Planet. They were extremely successful, both from an engineering point of view and from the scientific data they returned. Because the missions were flown way before the internet, we do not have the luxury of extensive on-line references as we do have now for recent missions. However, there's still a wealth of information published over the years. This site hopes to provide a rather complete picture of different aspects of the mission. Of course, it will have to grow and I hope that you, the interested reader, will help to achieve that goal by reporting any mistakes, additions, comments, suggestions, criticism etc. In the meantime, go explore and enjoy !</I></P> <P><A HREF="mailto:mgaelens@yahoo.com">Michel</A> </P> <HR SIZE="3" COLOR="#000080"> <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" BGCOLOR="#000080"> <TR> <TD HEIGHT="25" ALIGN="left"><NOBR> <SPAN CLASS="divise"></SPAN> <A HREF="VikingWhatsNew.html"><B><I><FONT COLOR="#ffffff">What's New</FONT></I></B></A> <FONT COLOR="#ffffff">|</FONT> <A HREF="VikingChronology.html"><I><FONT COLOR="#ffffff"><B>Chronology</B></FONT></I></A> <FONT COLOR="#ffffff">|</FONT><A HREF="VikingOrbits.html"><I><FONT COLOR="#ffffff"><B>Orbits</B></FONT></I></A> <FONT COLOR="#ffffff">|</FONT> <A HREF="VikingLinks.html"><I><FONT COLOR="#ffffff"><B>Links</B></FONT></I></A> <FONT COLOR="#ffffff">|</FONT> </NOBR></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <HR SIZE="3" COLOR="#000080"> <DIV ALIGN="center"> <FONT SIZE="-2"><I>All pictures are courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration unless stated otherwise.</I></FONT> </DIV> <HR SIZE="3" COLOR="#000080"> <img src="http://users.pandora.be/cgi-bin/yaac/yaac?t152771+zero+inv" border="0" alt="Counter"> <P><FONT SIZE="-1">Copyright © 2001<A HREF="mailto:mgaelens@yahoo.com">Michel Gaelens</A> </FONT></P> <DIV ALIGN="left"> Last Updated : February 4, 2002 </DIV> </BODY>