Page 33 - ShareSpace's Mars Map Teacher's Guide - Sept 2016

Flybys The first missions to Mars
taking pictures as it goes b
Mariner 3 & 4
The first picture is of Mari

Ask students: what are the
communication) Ask stude
or just one side?

Ask what the students see in
the surface images? Bring to
the students attention how the
early missions had very low
quality images making it
difficult to study yet they were
still clear enough that scientists
could tell that Mars was
similar to the moon shocking a
lot of people who believed that
Mars was more like the Earth.