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Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built 10 robotic interplanetary probes named Mariner to explore the inner Solar System – visiting the planets Venus, Mars and Mercury for the first time, and returning to Venus and Mars for additional close observations.
The 10 Mariners visited Venus, Mars and Mercury for the first time, and later returned to Venus and Mars for a closer look. The final mission in the series, Mariner 10, flew past Venus before going on to Mercury for a total of three flybys. Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet when it reached Mars in 1971.
Jul 26, 2024 · Yesterday, NASA announced that a rock spotted on Mars by its Perseverance rover contained some of the best signs yet that ancient microbial life may have once existed on the Red Planet.
Jun 4, 2021 · On Wednesday, June 2, NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced that the agency would send two new missions to Earth’s inner neighbor by 2030. One of them, DAVINCI+, is an atmospheric probe that...
Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed and built 10 space- craft named Mariner to explore the inner solar system -- visiting the planets Venus, Mars and Mercury for the first time, and returning to Venus and Mars for additional close observations.
Jun 2, 2021 · Despite the best efforts of scientists eager to study Earth’s sister world, U.S. efforts to send a dedicated spacecraft to Venus languished—until NASA made a surprising announcement.
Dec 12, 2012 · Fifty years ago, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to the planet Venus, marking the first time any spacecraft had ever successfully made a close-up study of another planet.
