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Packed with ultraviolet and infrared sensors, Mariner will also keep a continual watch on the Martian surface and atmosphere. Thus, for the first time, scientists will be able to observe on a day-to-day basis the mysterious changes that occur on the Red Planet, including the strange seasonal wave...
For more than five months, the three unmanned spacecraft have been racing almost neck and neck through the cold blackness of the interplanetary void. Now, as the target looms ever larger ahead of the ships, there is a growing air of anticipation in control rooms back on earth. For the...
At 7:16 p.m.. E.S.T., on Saturday, Nov. 13, the U.S. entry in the Martian sweepstakes-a 1,300-lb. windmill-shaped instrument package called Mariner 9-will begin a series of crucial maneuvers. Acting on preprogrammed commands sent from the huge, 210-ft. Goldstone tracking antenna in California...
Soviet Reticence. In contrast to NASA, Soviet space officials have been far less talkative about their two unmanned probes, Mars 2 and 3. But some U.S. observers have concluded from the size of the spacecraft-which weighed about 8,000 Ibs. more at lift-off than their American counterpart-that...
Despite their reticence about their goals, the Soviets have cooperated with the U.S. in establishing a "hot line" between Mariner's mission controllers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and Moscow, where the Russian Mars program is directed by the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Thus if...