Americans confirmed: Russians were the first to Mars

NASA probe photographed the Soviet Red Planet automatic station Mars-3. Soviet lander the automatic interplanetary station (AMS) Mars-3 was found on images taken by the American station Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which now revolves around the Red Planet. Photos taken with a HiRISE high-resolution camera, installed on the MRO, hit the Earth back in 2007. NASA posted them on his website. View these huge shots, With nearly 2 billion pixels, everyone could. Most of all who want to look at and search for something unusual found in Russia. Members of one of the social communities, keenly interested in Mars, divided the pictures into parts and started study them closely. Success came at the very end of 2012: on one of the parts – on the one that included the Martian crater Ptolemy, and there were artifacts resembling elements of the AMC Mars 3.

A photo from open sources Experts spotted on a NASA image parachute from Mars-3, descent vehicle and thermal protection (below) Photo: NASA

“Martians” turned to the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry named after Vernadsky RAS. Leading employee of the institute Alexander Bazilevsky contacted NASA. Specifically talked to Alfred Alfred McEwen, responsible for the operation of the HiRISE camera and asked to photograph the suspicious area again. To take a look at it under different lighting.

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It looked like the station Mars-3, created in the NGO named Lavochkina. The lander – from above Photo: NGO named Lavochkina Recently NASA fulfilled the request of Russian enthusiasts. New pictures show: in the crater of Ptolemy there really is something extra-Martian. And most likely it Mars 3. – The type and location of objects correspond to how the landing site should look, ”McIven reassured. The experts determined that a parachute looks best. Its diameter is 11 meters, it is completely straightened. The picture also managed to make out thermal protection and the lander itself with open petals. REFERENCE “KP” The first and only Mars-3 was developed by specialists NGO named after Lavochkin. The station started on May 28, 1971. December 2nd In 1971, the lander of the station landed on Mars. And became the first Earth apparatus, which made a soft landing on Red the planet. In the history of Soviet and Russian cosmonautics, he remained the only one – to be on Mars, we no longer happened. The devices either crashed or broke even before landing. The shrunken Mars-3 quickly got ready for work and already after one and a half minutes began to convey a panorama of the surface. But for some For a mysterious reason, after 14.5 seconds the transmission stopped. On the The Earth got only a part of the image, which nevertheless, as they assure enthusiasts, you can see the line of the Martian horizon. On the the landing module was a rover. But he never moved with places due to loss of connection. According to the most popular hypothesis, the device was damaged by a powerful electric discharge. Although about him origin argue. Most likely, the source of the discharge is atmospheric electricity. Or static, induced by a dust storm, which raged at the time. Mars 3 was supposed to really land in the Ptolemy crater in a place with coordinates of 45 degrees south latitude and 202 degrees west longitude. Here, in fact, lovers of Mars and noticed objects in the pictures.

A photo from open sources landing sites on Mars descent devices Photo: Wikipedia By the way, Americans sending to The red planet didn’t invent its Curiosity laboratory bike. When designing thermal protection, NASA essentially repeated design applied to the launch vehicle of the Mars-3 station. AND we and they made a cone that looked like a flying saucer.