Official NASA manual entitled “Technical Report 32-884, Mariner Mars 1964 Project Report: Television Experiment, Part I. Investigators’ Report,” which contains the report “Mariner IV Pictures of Mars,” by Robert B. Leighton, Bruce C. Murray, Robert P. Sharp, J. Denton Allen, and Richard K. Sloan, prepared by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, December 15, 1967, 178 pages, 8.5 x 11, with the preface reading, in part: “The present report is in two parts. Part I presents the Mariner IV pictures of Mars together with the investigators’ report thereon. Part II consists of numerical printouts of the picture intensities in matrix form. The report describes the design, construction, calibration, and operation of the television subsystem; outlines the procedures followed in the acquisition, handling, and reduction of the digital data; presents the calibrated and sharpened pictures in several forms convenient for study; and discusses some of the preliminary results obtained.” The report contains an abundance of tables and figures, diagrams and illustrations, and pictures of the Mariner IV’s historic 22 images of the Martian surface, which includes amazing fold-out pages containing detailed picture statistics and three versions of each Mariner image: Variance Plot; Calibrated, sharpened, and enhanced; and Calibrated and enhanced. The front cover and title page feature “Reference Copy” and “Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library” stamps dated March 1, 1968. The upper front cover is marked “JPL, TR 32-884, pt. 1, Cy #18.” In fine condition, with light wear and stains to spine and covers.
