NOT REALLY REINVENTING WHEEL
Your caption accompanying the Mars Global Surveyor image of the Spirit lander on Mars (AW&ST Feb. 2, p. 36) describes it as "the first unambiguous orbital view of man-made objects off Earth." In fact, Lunar Orbiter III took the first such image 37 years ago when it photographed the Surveyor I lunar...
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