But it is Mariner 4, the first flyby mission of Mars, which set the stage for a lot of the science being done on and around Mars today, and the first mission where NASA wisely took a “pics or it ...

But it is Mariner 4, the first flyby mission of Mars, which set the stage for a lot of the science being done on and around Mars today, and the first mission where NASA wisely took a “pics or it ...

Mars 2, had launched on May 19. Three U.S. missions, Mariner 4, Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 had flown past Mars in 1965 and 1969, but no spacecraft had yet orbited another planet. Like its Soviet ...

Scientists around the world were eager to build upon the initial glimpses of that world provided by the earlier Mariner 4, 6, and 7 flyby missions. But Mars had other plans. One reason for the ...

Nasa's Mariner 4 completed the first successful flyby of Mars in the summer of 1965. The spacecraft had a camera onboard to capture Martian vistas, but transmitting all the data to Earth was slow ...

But after the Mariner 4 probe flew by the Red Planet in 1965 during the first Mars mission and snapped pictures of a barren surface, these interpretations were proved wrong. Mars is a still and ...

Pete Lawrence is at the Milton Keynes Astronomical Society to talk us through Mars observations and what other cosmic wonders ...