7 March
1996: On 7 March 1996, the first surface photos of Pluto were released.
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1979: On 8 March 1979, Volcanoes were discovered on Io, a moon of Jupiter.
They were discovered by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft.
On 12 December 2000, the NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission flew past Io and captured an image of the moon and its shadow in transit against the disk of Jupiter.
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6 March
1989: On 6 March 1989, ESA's Meteosat 4 launched from Kourou, French Guiana.
5 March
2003: On 5 March 2003, the inauguration ceremony took place for the European Space Agency’s first deep space ground station in New Norcia, 150 kilometres north of Perth, Australia.
4 March
1923 : On 4 March 1923, Sir Patrick (Alfred Caldwell) Moore was born.
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