The 1960s saw a total of 18 missions from the USA and USSR that targeted Venus, with five successfully completed missions: Mariner 2 (1962, Flyby) Venera 4 (1967, Atmospheric) Mariner 5 (1967 ...
The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...
Out of the raw data transmitted back to earth from Russia’s Venus 4 and the U.S.’s Mariner 5 spacecraft, scientists last week pieced together a picture of Venus as a place of unbearable heat ...
As Mariner barreled away from the earth at 7,724 miles an hour toward a scheduled approach to Venus on Dec. 14, Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that it will pass somewhat farther ...