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The Mariner program was a program conducted by the American space agency NASA that launched a series of robotic interplanetary probes designed to investigate Mars, Venus and Mercury. The program inc...
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Mariner 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mariner 1 was the first spacecraft of the Mariner program. Launched on July 22, 1962 as a Venus flyby mission, a range safety officer ordered its destructive abort at 09:26:16 UT, 293 seconds after l...
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Mariner 4 was the first spacecraft to obtain and transmit close range images of Mars. ... Detailed information on Mariner 6 Spacecraft, Experiments and Data Sets ... Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 were identical spacecraft launched on February 24, 1969 and March 27, 1969 respectively, and their missions were entirely devoted to...
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Ordering Information; CD-ROM Volume: N/A; NASA Image ID number: Mariner 4, frame 01D; Other Image ID number: N/A; NSSDC Data Set ID (Photo): 64-0771-01A; NSSDC Data Set ID (CD): N/A; Other ID: N/A; ... First close-up image of Mars, from the Mariner 4 spacecraft...
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Mariner 1: Attempted Venus flyby, 1962, destroyed shortly after launch when vehicle veered off course. ... Mariner 3: Attempted Mars flyby, 1964, transmissions ceased 9 hours after launch, spacecraft entered solar orbit.
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Here the Mariner 10 spacecraft is being assembled prior to its November 1973 launch. During its two-year mission, the spacecraft transmitted over 12,000 images of Mercury and Venus.
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Spacecraft:; Mariner 2 ... The unmanned Mariner 2 spacecraft, with its six scientific instruments, passed within 34,800 kilometers (21,600 miles) of Venus. Mariner 2 indicated that Venus is very hot and has no measureable magnetic fields or radiation belts.
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This photograph of Mercury was taken by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft shows smooth plains areas on Mercury that are thought to be volcanic in origin with lava flows filling in heavily cratered areas.
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(29e) Spacecraft that Explore Distant Space ... Finally, the deep space explorers--spacecraft which break away from the Earth's gravity ... The Mariner series have explored Venus and Mars--and Mariner 10 even reached Mercury, for three separate encounters!
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Mariner 1-2 space exploration ... The Agena second burn injected the Mariner 2 spacecraft into a geocentric escape hyperbola at 26 minutes 3 seconds after lift-off. Solar panel extension was completed about 44 minutes after launch. On 29 August 1962 cruise science experiments were turned on.
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