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Mariner 3

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Launch Details

Date: 5 Nov 1964, 07:22 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas Agena D (Atlas)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Robotic Exploration

Orbit: Mars flyby

Pad: Space Launch Complex 13, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Mariner 3 was a 260 kg solar-cell and battery-powered spacecraft designed to make scientific measurements in the vicinity of Mars and to obtain photographs of the planet's surface and transmit these to Earth.