“ EXPERIMENT: CLOSE-UP OF MARS ” 1964 NASA MARINER 4 IMAGING / CAMERA SYSTEM JPL CALTECH XD45334

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1966 color film, directed by Mauri Goldberg for National Educational Television documents and dramatizes the process by which a camera system was designed and installed in NASA’s Mariner 4 Rocket, producing the first photographs of the surface of planet Mars (TRT: 29:23). Opening titles: “Net Science Presents” (0:09). NASA’s Mariner 4 rocket preparing for launch (0:19). Two engineers. The launch of a Mariner rocket. Opening titles, “The Story of A Scientific Search Told by Don Herbert” (0:27). A blurry photo of Mars, as seen through a telescope (1:01). Our host introduces himself, with a corkboard holding the photo (1:34). Robert Leighton of the California Institute of Technology speaks with contemporaries from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Pasadena. CalTech’s Dr. Robert Sharp and Bruce Murray in conversation. Richard Sloan and JPL’s Al Herriman. Denton All