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Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo - July 25, 1976

Jul 25, 2022

Mere days after making history by sending the successful Viking 1 lander to the Martian surface, the Viking 1 orbiter took a photo that would ignite the imagination of UFO theorists for decades to come. Today's Sci-Fi 5 stares into the "Face" on Mars.

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