Via Slashdot comes the Mars Scorecard (link to Slashdot discussion), which starts with the following entry.
Various scattered reports detail an invasion force of hundreds at Grovers Mill, NJ from Mars on 1938 October 31 around 01:50:00 UTC.
But serious. The first image of Mars that came back from a human made spacecraft, well, that was in 1965 when the Mariner 4 did a Mars flyby. Compare that image with the quality of today’s rovers.
