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• Commemorating the day one of the most significant space missions to Mars was launched, November 28 is marked as Red Planet Day.

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• On this day in 1964, the United States launched the space craft Mariner 4 on a course towards Mars, which it flew past in July 1965, sending back pictures of the red planet.
• This was the first time that a spacecraft undertook the first flyby of the red planet, becoming the first-ever spacecraft to take close-up photographs of another planet.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sci-tech/red-planet-day-the-missions-that-brought-humans-closer-to-mars-8294521/#:~:text=Commemorating%20the%20day%20one%20of,pictures%20of%20the%20red%20planet.

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