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NASA’s First Mars Flyby Set The Stage For Today’s Rovers – Forbes
NASA’s Mars exploration is soon reach a new milestone some 56 years after the space agency’s first flyby of the red planet.
Artists illustration of NASAs Mars Perseverance Rover on the Red Planets surface.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Some six weeks away from the seven minutes of terror that will precede the entry, descent, and landing of NASAs most ambitious robotic Mars mission ever attempted, its worth a look back at what we learned from NASAs very first Mars flyby which launched some 56 years ago last month.
NASAs Mariner 4 spacecraft, launched from Cape Canaveral on November 28, 1964, became the first successful flyby of…
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