Mariner 4 flies past Mars
Date as reported
Mariner 4 returned close-range photographs of Mars during its encounter.
- Category
- Mission Operations and Milestones
- Type
- Flyby
- Mission
- Mariner 4
- Programme
- Mariner
- Organization
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Destination
- planet
- Target body
- Mars
- Country
- US
Sources and attribution
- NASA — Mariner 4 (opens in a new tab) — Factual summary; source attribution retained.