Mariner Missions
Grace kokke
Mariner Missions
Dates and discoveries
1962.Shortly after lift off mariner 1 was experiencing difficulties with engines and was forced to crash because it veered off course.
Mariner 2
1962.Mariner 2 was successful and retuned with lots of interesting information about Venus.
Mariner 3
1964.Mariner 3 mission was to orbit Marsalis and take lots of photos and transmit to earth but shield failed when trying to brake through the atmosphere.
Mariner 4
1964-1965 Successfull 4th space craft to send images from deep space from Mars.
Mariner 5
In 1969 mission for Mariner 5 was to explore atmosphere and surface of venus to give information to NASA about Venus.
Mariner 6
1971. Mars flyby to find out more information about Mars by photos.
Mariner 7
1969. To discover more about Mars, mainly surface and atmosphere.
Mariner 8
1971, orbit Mars but failed and crashed back to earth.
Mariner 9
1971. Mars orbit and report back to earth information and images back to NASA.
Mariner 10
1973-1975
Venus and mercury flyby first to visit mercury first to have close images