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It was the twelfth spacecraft to reach Venus and the eighth to return data from the planet, [63] as well as the first mission to succeed in broadcasting images of Venus back to Earth. [64] Mariner 10 built upon observations made by Mariner 5 six years earlier; importantly, Mariner 10 had a camera whereas the prior mission lacked one. [ 65 ]
Venus lander (contact lost) – First spacecraft to reach another planet's atmosphere and surface, First Venus impact [70] [18] Luna 8: 3 December 1965
First spacecraft to flyby the same planet multiple times . USA (NASA) Mariner 10 [34] 15 July 1975: First multinational crewed mission. USSR USA (NASA) Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: 20 October 1975: First spacecraft to orbit Venus. USSR Venera 9: 22 October 1975: First successful photos from the surface of another planet (Venus). USSR Venera 9: 20 ...
Venera 7 (Russian: Венера-7, lit. 'Venus 7') was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus.When it landed on the Venusian surface on 15 December 1970, it became the first spacecraft to soft land on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth.
The trajectories that enabled the Voyager spacecraft to visit the outer planets and achieve velocity to escape the Solar System Plot of Voyager 2 ' s heliocentric velocity against its distance from the Sun, illustrating the use of gravity assist to accelerate the spacecraft by Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
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It was the first spacecraft to return an image from the surface of another planet. Many of the instruments began working immediately after touchdown and the cameras were operational 2 minutes later. These instruments revealed a smooth surface with numerous stones.
Gawvi, an artist and producer in the Christian hip-hop community, has been dropped by his label, Reach, and from an upcoming tour in light of a developing scandal involving his allegedly sending ...