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Mariner 4
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- Launched
- 28 Nov 196414:22:01 UTC
- Last contact
- 21 Dec 1967
- Duration
- 3 years
The first spacecraft to return close-up pictures of another planet, sending back 21 images of a cratered Mars from its flyby in July 1965.
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Launch28 Nov 1964Mars flyby15 Jul 1965Last contact21 Dec 1967
Spacecraft
Probe with a television camera on a scan platform and a tape recorder that played the images back over several days.
- Launch mass
- 261 kg
- Dry mass
- 251 kg
- Size
- 2.9 m × 1.3 m, span 6.9 m
- Power
- Solar
- Last contact
- 21 Dec 1967
- Designator
- 1964-077A
Mission details from science.nasa.gov.
