Viking Lander reimagines the making of the first images on Mars in the 1970s. Using archival imagery from NASA’s Viking mission, layered with footage from Mars‑analog landscapes on Earth, the film mirrors the Lander’s vertical scanning camera — which captured narrow strips of data transmitted over radio waves to Earth. Blurring science, memory, and terrain, Viking Lander reveals how planetary images are not found but built; fragments of tape and code, colored and stitched into visions of a distant world.