Viking Lander

Two Viking landers successfully landed on Mars in 1976, the first on the 7th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon on July 20. The thing I remember most about that is that we were traveling across country, moving from New York to Seattle and passed through Salt Lake City at that time. When I saw the newspaper the next day and they had the first picture from Viking 1 on the surface of Mars, I thought "Sheesh! The landscape we just drove through looks just like that!" Nowadays, the images by our landers and rovers on Mars make me want to go take a hike over to the hills in the distance. This image was taken at 18mm focal length, with an exposure of 1/125 seconds at f/4.5, ISO 800.