Goldstone Mars Station, Card No 28 (RaceIntoSpace 1971)
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Card No. 28: The Goldstone Mars Station
The 210-foot diameter aerial and its tracking station was built by NASA as the main element of its deep-space tracking network.
The Mars station is located at Goldstone in the lonely Mohave Desert in California. Man-made electrical interference, which would swamp extremely weak signals from unmanned spacecraft at the boundary of the Solar System, is here almost absent.
In August 1969 commands were sent 60 million miles to Mariners 6 and 7, to photograph Mars from a range of 2,000 miles and transmit television pictures of it back to Goldstone.
