-
orbiters and
landers detached; the
landers then
entered the
Martian atmosphere and soft-landed at the
sites that had been chosen. The
Viking 1
lander touched...
- The
Viking 2
mission was part of the
American Viking program to Mars, and
consisted of an
orbiter and a
lander essentially identical to that of the Viking...
-
identical Viking program landers each
carried four
types of
biological experiments to the
surface of Mars. The
first successful Mars
landers,
Viking 1 and...
-
Vikings were
seafaring people originally from
Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries...
- The
Vikingland Band
Festival parade marching championship is held
annually in Alexandria,
Minnesota on the last
Sunday of June. The
event was
founded in...
-
Viking 1 was the
first of two spacecraft,
along with
Viking 2, each
consisting of an
orbiter and a
lander, sent to Mars as part of NASA's
Viking program...
- (opened in 1993),
another section is
called Vikingland (opened in 1995) and
there is a
small Fairy Tale
Land (opened in 2000). The park's
mascot is called...
- The
Viking Age (about 800–1050 CE) was the
period during the
Middle Ages when Nor****
known as
Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest...
-
Earth days or 1.88
Earth years. The sol was
adopted in 1976
during the
Viking Lander missions and is a
measure of time
mainly used by NASA when, for example...
- but have also
rejected the
claims of life. The 1970s
Viking program placed two
identical landers on the
surface of Mars
tasked to look for biosignatures...
