wrote:

Can anyone do better? also,
did Viking 2 take a similar pic for its first? I assume it did, but I
don't recall ever seeing one at the time. (I lost most of my newspaper
clippings and files in a garage fire several years ago.)



It's not as large, but here's the first Viking 2 surface picture,
showing he same view:
http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/Images/Astr...011-2-8_a.jpeg
A really good way to go looking for things like this is via a Google
search using "images"- this photo was on the first page of images that
came up when I typed in "first viking 2 photo" as the search criteria.