Cosmic Exploration · mission

Mariner 4

1964 · NASA · Mars · Completed

Agency
NASA
Status
Completed
End Date
1967-12-21
Destination
Mars
Launch Date
1964-11-28

Objective

Twenty-one photographs, taken on tape and played back over eight hours. They showed craters and no canals, and the Mars of fiction died that week.

Open on the Cosmic Exploration shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.

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