I grew up as an information hound. Lacking the internet in my high
school days I would often hang out in the library looking things
up. One day I found a catalog from the US Government Printing Office
with all sorts of stuff at reasonable prices. I ordered a brochure
with pictures of Mars from the 1970s
Viking Missions to Mars. A few weeks later came
some pretty color images including a stereographic (3D) image of the
red planet.
Fast forward over two decades later. Another Mars mission. More
pictures. The pictures haven't changed much but I can access them far
easier and quicker than before. When you look at
those Mars pictures realize that the great technological advance is not so much in
NASA getting pictures from Mars but in NASA getting those pictures to
you.
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