6 March
1989: On 6 March 1989, ESA's Meteosat 4 launched from Kourou, French Guiana.
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1996: On 7 March 1996, the first surface photos of Pluto were released.
Although the only Solar System planet never visited by spacecraft, it was successfully photographed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The release presented the images made in 1994, by a team of astronomers. To create a global map of the surface of Pluto, they took a total of 12 images at 4 distinct longitudes in visible light and 8 images in the ultraviolet. These covered nearly the entire surface of Pluto, taken as the planet rotated through a 6.4-day period.
Pluto is revealed as a complex object, with more large-scale contrast than any planet, except Earth. The images also show almost a dozen distinctive albedo features, or provinces, never seen before.
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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.
3 March
1997: On 3 March 1997, ESA announced that its Huygens probe was ready to be shipped to the United States.
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