No Viking landed on the Moon. They landed on Mars. Look the program up on Wikipedia, it's pretty interesting.
Viking 1 was actually a Martian space probe launched in 1975 by NASA. It was the first successful probe to land on Mars. It was launched by a Titan rocket with a Centaur upper stage.
Yes. It is correct to say that viking was a name of a lunar probe.
Surveyer
First ever satellite to land on the planet Mars was a Russian probe called Mars 2. Albeit it did not land but crashed. The first successful probe to land on Mars was Mars 3 sent by the Russians, however the probe was operational for 15 minutes after landing on Mars. The first American probe to land on Mars was the Viking 1 on the 20th of July 1976.
The Soviet Union's unmanned spacecraft Luna 9 was the first man-made probe to make a soft landing on the moon on February 3rd, 1966.
The Viking Space Probe was actually two different probes. Viking 1 and Viking 2 were used to explore Mars. The probes took photographs, did experiments and deployed instruments to the surface of Mars.
the space prob Huygens landed on Saturn's moon in the year 1932.
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Mars
The Soviet unmanned spacecraft Luna 9 was the first man-made probe to make a soft landing on the moon on February 3rd, 1966.
The US landed the Viking probe.
The two most well known ones are Voyager Probe and the Viking probe.