Life on Mars life were found. Mariner 4 probe performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface in 1965. The photographs showed an arid Mars without rivers, oceans, or any signs of life. Further, it revealed that the surface (at least the parts that it photographed) was covered in craters, indicating a lack of plate tectonics and weathering of any kind for the last 4 billion years. The probe also found that Mars has no global magnetic field that would protect the planet from potentially life-threatening cosmic rays. The probe was able to calculate
Music in space Nick Mason, who made an audio recording of the event for potential use in a future project. This was claimed by Gilmour to have been the first rock music recording in space. The tape was left on Mir when the mission crew returned to Earth. In 2003 the British space organization's "Beagle 2" probe was scheduled to play a song from the UK music band Blur, upon touchdown on the planet Mars. It was not known what happened to "Beagle 2" for 11 years after landing, and it was considered lost. When it was found intact in 2015, however, the