Coloring the First TV Image of Mars

Telecommunications engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory created a color version of one of the first images of Mars by hand-coloring numbered paper strips. Numbers on the strips corresponded to the brightness level of the image.
July 15, 1965
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Telecommunications engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory created a color version of one of the first images of Mars by hand-coloring numbered paper strips. Numbers on the strips corresponded to the brightness level of the image. This image was later framed and presented to the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, William Pickering.

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