On this date in 1976 the Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

Have primary elementary children point to the directions on their papers before you read these. This way you'll know that they are following along with you.

Placing colored stickers or tape on the space bar of computer keyboards helps smaller children find it. Often they run all the words together since there is no letter of the alphabet that is a space.

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