Accession No

6280

Brief Description

39 slides (35mm) of Mariner 9 Mission to Mars showing images of planet and spacecraft, by Finley Holiday Films, U.S.A.; 1972 (c)

Origin

U.S.A.; California

Maker

Finley Holiday Films

Class

astronomy; demonstration

Earliest Date

1972

Latest Date

1975

Inscription Date

Material

paper card / cardboard, film

Dimensions

39mm x 35mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from www.eBay.co.uk, 29/06/2009.

Inscription

On reverse of all slides:

40-20
FINLEY HOLIDAY FILMS
WHITTIER, CA.

Description Notes

39 slides (35mm) of Mariner 9 Mission to Mars showing images of planet and spacecraft, by Finley Holiday Films, c.1972, California

All slides are marked ‘MARS - MARINER 9’ on obverse, have images on reddish film set within off-white card. They are marked with a number and captions (as below):

6280.1 ‘Mars 534, 398 miles from surface’
6280.2 ‘Mars 224, 280 miles from surface’
6280.3 ‘Mars 337, 132 miles from surface’
6280.4 ‘Mars 269, 600 miles from surface’
6280.5 ‘Mars 239. 400 miles from surface’
6280.6 ‘Mariner 9’
6280.7 ‘Mariner 9 Scientific Instruments’
6280.8 ‘Mariner 9 Launch’
6280.9 ‘Mariner 9 Mars Orbit’ (illustration)
6280.10 ‘Mariner 9 approach to planet’
6280.11 ‘North Spot Orbit’
6280.12 ‘Mars Equatorial Mosaic’
6280.13 ‘Mars Grand Canyon’ (photograph/side elevation)
6280.14 ‘Mars Dust Storm’
6280.15 ‘Mini-Eclipse at Mars’
6280.16 ‘Phobos’
6280.17 ‘Volcanic Mountain on Mars’
6280.18 ‘Canonland on Mars’ (’18’ handwritten in black ink)
6280.19 ‘The Gordian Knot’
6280.20 ‘Arroyo’
6280.21 ‘Canyons hang like a giant chandelier’
6280.22 ‘Landslide’
6280.23 ‘Martian Valleys’
6280.24 ‘Volcanic Collapse’
6280.25 ‘Mariner 9’
6280.26 ‘Dune Field’
6280.27 ‘Phoenicis Lacus’
6280.28 ‘Pits and Hollows’
6280.29 ‘View of Rilles, or Cracks’
6280.30 ‘Mariner 9 Blanketed by Clouds’
6280.31 ‘Medium Resolution Polar Mosaic’
6280.32 ‘Martian Canyonlands’
6280.33 ‘Mariner 7’
6280.34 ‘Dark Splotches on Mars’
6280.35 ‘Middle Spot’
[one slide from series missing - was not included in original purchase]
6280.36 ‘37. Fluid erosion on the Martian Surface’
6280.37 ‘38. South Pole Residual Cap’
6280.38 ‘39. View Taken by Mariner 7’
6280.39 ‘40. Mariner 9’

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