Mars

"There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, ‘tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings…”
-- Leonardo da Vinci

After touching down on the western side of Mars’ Chryse Planitia in 1976, the Viking 1 lander beamed back the first images from the surface of another planet – revealing for the first time a red, dusty world eerily similar yet strangely different from our own. over the next six years, the lander and its orbiting co-worker sent back hundreds of images of the planet from above and down below, revealing eroded channels, cratered plains and, for the first time, sunset on another world.

Images from Daniel Blau London.