{"id":270069,"date":"2025-08-21T02:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=5ed220512f26f6ac761f4648c564d837"},"modified":"2025-08-21T02:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:52:19","slug":"viking-1-begins-journey-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=270069","title":{"rendered":"Viking 1 Begins Journey to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4940404265-47186ca7a3-o.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4940404265-47186ca7a3-o.jpg?w=1536\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A rocket launches upward. There is a very bright flame coming from the rocket, as well as clouds of white vapor. The clouds cover up the right side of the scene. On the left side, the sky is visible along with some thin white clouds. There are trees and other vegetation in the foreground of the image.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4940404265-47186ca7a3-o.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4940404265-47186ca7a3-o.jpg?resize=300,240 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4940404265-47186ca7a3-o.jpg?resize=768,615 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4940404265-47186ca7a3-o.jpg?resize=1024,819 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4940404265-47186ca7a3-o.jpg?resize=400,320 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4940404265-47186ca7a3-o.jpg?resize=600,480 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4940404265-47186ca7a3-o.jpg?resize=900,720 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4940404265-47186ca7a3-o.jpg?resize=1200,960 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Titan-Centaur rocket carrying the Viking 1 spacecraft launches from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Aug. 20, 1975. Viking 1 touched down on the red planet on July 20, 1976, becoming the first truly successful landing on Mars. Viking 1 was the first of a pair of complex deep space probes that were designed to reach Mars and to collect evidence on the possibility on life on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/planetary-science\/programs\/mars-exploration\/\" rel=\"noopener\">exploration of Mars<\/a> continues, with rovers exploring the planet\u2019s surface and spacecraft studying from orbit. The agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/artemis\/\">Artemis<\/a> missions will also lay the groundwork for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/humans-to-mars\/\">first crewed missions to Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/viking-1\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about Viking 1 and see the first photo it took upon landing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Titan-Centaur rocket carrying the Viking 1 spacecraft launches from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Aug. 20, 1975. Viking 1 touched down on the red planet on July 20, 1976, becoming the first truly successful landing on Mars. Viking 1 was the first of a pair of complex deep space probes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viking-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270102,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270069\/revisions\/270102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}