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	Viking program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Viking program grew from NASA's earlier, and more ambitious Voyager Mars program, which was not related to the successful Voyager deep space probes of the late 1970s.
		Viking 1 was launched on August 20, 1975, and the second craft, Viking 2, was launched on September 9, 1975, both riding atop Titan III-E rockets with Centaur upper stages.
		The primary objectives of the Viking orbiters were to transport the landers to Mars, perform reconnaissance to locate and certify landing sites, act as a communications relays for the landers, and to perform their own scientific investigations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viking_program (1367 words)

	Viking 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Viking 2 mission was part of the Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission.
		The orbiter was inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h Mars orbit on August 7, 1976 and trimmed to a 27.3 h site certification orbit with a periapsis of 1499 km and an inclination of 55.2 degrees on 9 August.
		The lander separated from the orbiter on September 3, 1976 and landed at Utopia Planitia at 22:37:50 UT.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Viking_2 (655 words)

	Viking
		Viking 1 was launched on August 20, 1975 and arrived at Mars on June 19, 1976.
		Viking 2 was launched September 9, 1975 and entered Mars orbit on August 7, 1976.
		Viking 2 entered Mars orbit on August 7, 1976 and the Viking Lander 2 touched down at Utopia Planitia on September 3, 1976.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/viking.htm (757 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Viking 2
		Conceptual drawing of the Mars Science Laboratory in operation on Mars Schematic diagram of the planned rover components The Mars Science Laboratory (or MSL for short) is a NASA rover scheduled to launch in December 2009 and perform a precision landing on Mars in October 2010.
		Beagle 2 : Evolution is the proposed successor to the unsuccessful Beagle 2 Mars lander which disappeared during its landing in 2003.
		The Viking program grew from an NASA's earlier, and more ambitious Voyager Mars program, which was not related to the successful Voyager deep space probes of the late 1970s.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Viking-2 (2258 words)

	Viking 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Viking 2 mission was part of the Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentiallyidentical to that of the Viking 1 mission.
		The lander separated from the orbiter on September 3, 1976 and landed at Utopia Planitia at 22:37:50 UT.Normal operations called for the structure connecting the orbiter and lander (the bioshield) to be ejected after separation, butbecause of problems with the separation the bioshield was left attached to the orbiter.
		The Viking 2 Lander operated on thesurface for 1281 Mars days and was turned off on April 11, 1980 when its batteries failed.
	www.therfcc.org /viking-2-44936.html (559 words)

	Viking 2: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft sent to mars as part of nasas viking program....
		Thumbright300px"pia00571: ice on mars utopia planitia again" (nasa/jpl) utopia planitia is the location where the viking 2 mars lander landed and...
		The Viking 2 Lander operated on the surface for 1281 Mars days and was turned off on April 11, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/viking_2.htm (839 words)

	Viking 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Viking 2 entered Mars orbit on August 7, 1976 and the Viking Lander 2 touched...
		Viking 2: Viking 2 was launched on September 9, 1975, and arrived in Martian orbit on August 7, 1976.
		Viking 2 Lander Spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Viking_2.html (1920 words)

	Viking 1, 2
		The Viking project consisted of launches of two separate spacecraft to Mars, Viking 1, launched on 20 August 1975, and Viking 2, launched on 9 September 1975.
		On 7 August 1980 Viking 1 Orbiter was running low on attitude control gas and its orbit was raised from 357 x 33943 km to 320 x 56000 km to prevent impact with Mars and possible contamination until the year 2019.
		The Viking 1 Lander was named the Thomas Mutch Memorial Station in January 1982 in honor of the leader of the Viking imaging team.
	www.skyrocket.de /space/doc_sdat/viking-1.htm (2132 words)

	The Surface of Mars as Seen by Viking
		The summer of 1976 was filled with excitement for planetary scientists as the Viking landers touched down upon the surface of the red planet.
		Viking Lander 2 used its sampler arm to dig these two trenches in the regolith.
		Viking Lander 2 is far enough north that frost deposits form on the surface during winter.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/marssurf.htm (1229 words)

	ch14
		Viking 2 was targeted to 48°N, 226°W, a spot in Utopia Planitia.
		The Viking 2 Lander separated from its Orbiter at 12:40 p.m.
		Meanwhile, we could track the descent of Viking 2 by using a low gain antenna on the Orbiter to monitor the signals sent by the Lander.
	history.nasa.gov /SP-425/ch14.htm (900 words)

	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
		NASA's Viking Project found a place in history when it became the first mission to land a spacecraft successfully on the surface of another planet and return both imaging and non-imaging data over an extended time period.
		The Viking 1 lander touched down on the western slope of Chryse Planitia (the Plains of Gold), while the Viking 2 lander settled down at Utopia Planitia.
		Viking Orbiter 1 functioned until July 25, 1978, while Viking Orbiter 2 continued for four years and 1,489 orbits of Mars, concluding its mission August 7, 1980.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/past/viking.html (384 words)

	Viking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Viking mission to Mars sent twin spacecraft to the Red Planet.
		This image shows a model of one of the Viking spacecraft, each of which was made of two parts: an orbiter and a lander.
		Once the Viking orbiters were attached to their lander pods they were positioned inside the nose cones of Titan Centaur launch vehicles.
	pds.jpl.nasa.gov /planets/welcome/viking.htm (369 words)

	Viking Mars Lander - Milestones of Flight
		Viking 1 landed on July 20, 1976; Viking 2 landed on September 3.
		Biological experiments on the Viking landers did not detect signs of life or any of the organic compounds that are abundant on Earth.
		The Viking 2 lander ceased operating in April 1980.
	www.nasm.si.edu /galleries/gal100/viking.html (294 words)

	Mars - The Viking Mission - Exploring The Planets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Viking Lander on display in the Milestones of Flight Gallery at the National Air and Space Museum.
		The Viking 1 and 2 Orbiters studied Mars from orbit for six and four years respectively, returning thousands of images of the planet.
		The two Viking Landers descended through the thin atmosphere and landed on the surface of Mars.
	www.nasm.si.edu /ceps/etp/mars/viking.html (179 words)

	Viking missions
		The Viking Project was formally begun by NASA on November 15, 1968 and was composed of two orbiters and two landers.
		The Viking mission was a spectacular technological and scientific success -- data from the mission, especially the orbiters, have been intensively analysed ever since by an enthusiastic science community.
		2, 1978 898 Adjustment of orbit priod to 24.85 hours; beginning slow walk around the planet May 19, 1978 1061 Adjustment of orbit period to 25.0 hours; Acceleration of walk rate July 20, 1979 1120 Raising of periapsis to 357 km; Adjustment of orbit period to 24.8 hours and slowing of walk rate.
	cmex.ihmc.us /SiteCat/sitecat2/viking.htm (383 words)

	Viking
		The Viking missions to Mars were part of a series of U.S. efforts to explore and better understand the red planet.
		Viking 1 was launched on Aug. 20, 1975, followed later that year on Sep. 9 by Viking 2.
		Viking 1 landed on the western slope of Chryse Planitia (the Plains of Gold) at 22.3 degrees N latitude, 48.0 degrees longitude.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/space_missions/viking.html (306 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Missions: By Target: Mars: Past: Viking 02
		The Viking Mars mission was performed by two spacecraft, Viking 1 and Viking 2, launched within a couple of weeks of each other.
		The Viking 2 orbiter flew within 22 kilometers of Deimos and took high-resolution pictures of this smaller of the two moons of Mars.
		Unlike the Viking 1 orbiter, the orbit of Viking 2 was inclined well above the equator so that it could better study the polar regions.
	sse.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Mars&MCode=Viking_02 (346 words)

	Viking
		Twin spacecraft, Viking 1 and Viking 2, launched toward Mars on Aug. 20 and Sep. 8, 1975.
		The Viking project, managed by the NASA Langley Research Center, was the first space mission to have as one of its primary goals the attempt to find extraterrestrial life.
		A fourth experiment, the Viking gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GCMS), was included to look for the presence of organic (not necessarily biogenic) material.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/V/Viking.html (1155 words)

	The Viking Missions
		The Viking I and Viking 2 missions were designed to both orbit Mars and land and make exploratory observations on the planet's surface.
		Immediately prior to Viking 2 orbit insertion, Mars was completely enveloped in a global dust storm, rendering the surface invisible to cameras for several months.
		Viking made more complete measurements of the shape of Mars, measurements which help scientists understand the interior of the planet and the existence of the bulge called Tharsis Ridge.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /cgi-bin/tour.cgi/mars/exploring/viking_overview.html (323 words)

	CruiseReport.com \| Cruise review \| Viking River Cruises \| Viking Danube \| Europe Cruise
		The main public areas of the Viking Danube where everyone congregates are the Viking Lounge on Deck 2 and the Sun Deck on Deck 4 (topside).
		Viking River Cruises seems to be fairly liberal in their liquor policy so you can probably get away with bringing aboard that bottle of German or French wine you purchased in town and enjoying it with friends.
		Other Viking River Cruises ships that serve the European and Asian populations are not sold in the U.S. What this policy lacks in providing ethnic diversity, it makes up for in ease of communication.
	www.cruisereport.com /report.asp?sr_id=501&pita=888&mb=&src= (2700 words)

	Spacecraft
		Viking 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 20, 1975 on a TITAN 3E-CENTAUR D1 rocket.
		Viking 2 was launched on September 9, 1975, and arrived in Martian orbit on August 7, 1976.
		Giotto was launched by an Ariane-1 by ESA on July 2 1985, and approached within 540 km +/- 40 km of the nucleus of Comet Halley on March 13, 1986.
	www.seds.org /nineplanets/nineplanets/spacecraft.html (3254 words)

	Viking Lander Images
		Viking color images of the martian surface suffer from a variety of uncertainties, in particular the relative brightness of the "red" and "blue" channels.
		Early reconstructions of the Viking lander images tended to show "blue" sky, while later reconstructions, trying to account for out-of-band contributions in each filter, tended to show a "red" sky, and often an "orange" surface.
		Viking lander mosaics were constructed from many separate camera events.
	barsoom.msss.com /mars/pictures/viking_lander/viking_lander.html (455 words)

	Viking 2 - 1976 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Viking 2 lander settles down at Utopia Planitia.
		Along with Viking 1 orbiter, Viking 2 orbiter studies the Martian atmosphere and images the entire planet at what was then high resolution.
		Viking 2 orbiter also flies within 22 kilometers (13.7 miles) of Deimos and takes high-resolution pictures of this smaller of the two moons of Mars.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /history/70s/Viking2_1976.htm (172 words)

	MBCS: Tunic
		This first pattern is designed for 2 yards of 45"-wide fabric: 1 1/3 yards for the body, and 24 inches for the sleeves.
		Sew the 2 little gore halves (G) together to match the shape of the big gore; sew the gores to either side of the back panel, or in slits at the center front and back.
		When assembling gores from halves, always sew together the 2 edges that are parallel to the selvedge edge of the fabric, not the diagonal edges.
	www.larp.com /midgard/tunic.htm (637 words)

	Viking
		On August 7, 1980, the Viking 1 orbiter was running low on attitude control gas, so its orbit was raised from 357x33,943 km to 320x56,000 km in order to prevent impact with Mars and possible contamination until 2019.
		Viking 1 also sent back color panoramas of Mars, showed that the sky was pinkish due to all of the red dust (rust) in the air, and that there was red soil and red boulders as far as it could see.
		Viking 2 was launched on September 9, 1975, and it reached Mars on August 7, 1976.
	burro.astr.cwru.edu /stu/advanced/20th_far_viking.html (2182 words)

	The Viking Mission
		On March 11, 1977, the periapsis of Viking Orbiter 1 was lowered to 300 km from the Martian surface.
		A major difference in the orbit of this spacecraft compared to that of Viking Orbiter 1 is its high inclination, which allowed Viking Orbiter 2 to observe the complex, enigmatic polar regions at relatively close range.
		Viking Orbiter 2 returned nearly 16 000 pictures of Mars and its satellites before it was powered down on July 25, 1978.
	cmex.ihmc.us /VOViews/MISSION1.HTM (1099 words)

	Viking 2 Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The purpose of the second launch to Mars of a landing vehicle was to increase the possibilities of landing on Mars.
		At the same time, this second part of the Viking project was to search for biological traces in the Utopia Planitia, whereas the Viking 1 was to carry out the same search on the Chryse Planitia.
		The results obtained by the Viking 2 confirmed those of the Viking 1 in that no plate tectonics were found and the biological analisys provided no definite conclusions on the presence or not of life on Mars.
	www.marsacademy.com /viking2.htm (142 words)

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