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...space craft was launched Aug. 17 from Cape Canaveral. It took 109 days for the craft to come within the required 21,000 miles of Venus, where it recorded data for 40 minutes...
Edward Lilley, associate professor of Astronomy, who helped design the Venus Mariner II spacecraft, yesterday explained and evaluated the experiment...
...experimental equipment consisted of two radio telescopes attached to the craft operating at very short radio wave lengths. The scientists were able to receive measurements made on the space craft giving them progress checks on the behavior of the telescopes on the cruise toward Venus...
...second probe, Mariner II, was entirely successful and arrived at Venus last Friday. The measurements of Venus were radioed to tracking stations in, California. Lilley, in Cambridge, was able to listen to a "moment-by-moment account" of the craft's performance over the phone...
Besides recording temperatures the probe may also disclose the presence of water vapor on Venus...