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100 1 _aJet Propulsion Laboratory
_q(U.S.)
245 1 0 _aMariner Mission to Venus
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2017
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2017-04-21
508 _aProduced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Mariner Mission to Venus" by Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a scientific publication written in the early 1960s. The work details the first successful U.S. mission to Venus through the Mariner spacecraft, focusing on its launch, flight, and the scientific data collected during its flyby. The book aims to provide insights into the complexities of space exploration and the significant findings that emerged from this groundbreaking mission. The opening of the book introduces the Mariner II spacecraft and its historic journey to Venus, which culminated in a close approach to the planet on December 14, 1962. It captures the excitement of scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as they monitored the spacecraft's communication from over 36 million miles away, receiving data that marked the first time humankind had gathered information from near another planet. It also highlights the technological and engineering challenges faced during the mission, underscoring the collaborative efforts involved in this monumental achievement in space exploration. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aProject Mariner (U.S.)
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54585
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