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Date: Apr 12 01:59 2013

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NASA Mars Orbiter Images May Show 1971 Soviet Lander Hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union landed on Mars in 1971 might appear in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. While following news about Mars and NASA's Curiosity rover, Russian citizen enthusiasts found four features in a five-year-old image from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that resemble four pieces of hardware from the Soviet Mars 3 mission: the parachute, heat shield, terminal retrorocket and lander. A follow-up image by the orbiter from last month shows the same features. Read more __________________

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Date: Dec 2 07:54 2012

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Anniversary of the Mars 3, Mars Orbit Insertion in 1971. Spoiler __________________

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Date: Dec 2 00:01 2011

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Anniversary of the Mars 3, Mars Orbit Insertion in 1971. The Mars 3 was an unmanned space probe of the Mars program, a series of unmanned Mars landers and orbiters launched by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s. Read more __________________

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