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Posted by: gndonald Apr 1 2012, 08:33 AM

I've actually posted about this on another forum, but it's just too interesting not to share.

I recently stumbled across an early 1965 report on a study into hard landing what amounts to a digital camera on Mars in either 1969 or 1971.

The lander was designed to take a single (250000 bit (My estimation)) picture and transmit that image back to Earth.

See:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19660004285_1966004285.pdf