Color Key for First TV Image of Mars

Engineers creating the first TV image of Mars used lighter pastels for the lower number values on the grey scale, and darker shades for the higher numbers.
July 14, 1965
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech
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Engineers creating the first TV image of Mars used lighter pastels for the lower number values on the grey scale, and darker shades for the higher numbers. As the numbers spewed out of a teletype machine, people took the sheets, cut them into strips and pinned them up on a wall.

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