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Today in 1964 the Mariner 4 spacecraft was launched. It was the first mission to transmit pictures over interplanetary distances and the first to take close-up photos of another planet. Data arrived at 8.5 bits per second, and the first graphical representation of the data was hand-painted, paint-by-numbers style.
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