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- Instance of
- project
- Has part
- Mariner 10
- Operator
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Image
- Mariner 2 inspection.jpg
- Significant event
- failure
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- start time
- 1962-00-00
- end time
- 1973-00-00
- has goal
- exploration of Mercury
- capital cost
- 554000000
- Commons category
- Mariner program
- topic's main category
- Category:Mariner program
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- uses
- Atlas-Agena
- topic has template
- Template:Mariner program
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Encyclopedic overview
Launch of Mariner 1 in 1962
The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built 10 robotic interplanetary probes named Mariner to explore the inner Solar System – visiting the planets Venus, Mars and Mercury for the first time, and returning to Venus and Mars for additional close observations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mariner program” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.