MARINER FACTS
(A’.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) PASADENA (California), July 15. Mariner IV at a glance: Launched—November 28, 1964. Distance travelled to Mars—32s million miles on a curving trajectory, intercepting Mars in its orbit around the sun when that planet was 134 million straight-line miles from earth. Cost—Not precisely calculated. Jet Propulsion Laboratory estimates the cost of two Marsaimed Mariner vehicles —Mariner 111 failed shortly after launching earlier last November —at about 200 million dollars. Purpose—To take closeup pictures hopefully showing whether life does or could exist on Mars, and to sample the radiation around it which might affect manned landings planned by Voyager spacecraft in the 19705.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30804, 16 July 1965, Page 11
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