Mars 5 in orbit
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW, Feb. 14. A Soviet Union spaceship launched seven months ago has been put into orbit around the planet Mars. The Russian news agency, Tass, reports that the automatic interplanetary station, Mars 5, went into orbit around the planet yesterday after covering a distance of nearly 228 million miles. Another craft, Mars 4, approached Mars last Sunday, but, because of a fault passed the planet at a distance of 1380 miles. Two more spaceships, Mars 6 and Mars 7, which were launched last August, are due to approach the I planet in the first half of next ■month. Although Soviet Union authorities have said little about their space caravan, leading Moscow scientists have been hinting that they will soon soft-land a rover on the surface of Mars. At least one of the craft is expected to land, transmit television pictures of the Martian landscape, and take 'measurements of heat, [moisture, sunlight, and soil , samples.
Mars 5 is orbiting Mars once every 25 hours, and passing within 1100 miles of the planet at its nearest point.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33460, 15 February 1974, Page 9
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