Beskrivning : Cap Canaveral post stamp and Mariner 5 start satellite.

The Mariner 5 spacecraft was the fifth in a series of spacecraft used for planetary exploration in the flyby mode. Mariner 5 was a refurbished backup spacecraft for the Mariner 4 mission and was converted from a Mars mission to a Venus mission. The project objectives were to pass within 2000 km of Venus to provide data on the structure of the planet`s atmosphere and its radiation and magnetic field environment. Mariner 5 was also designed to return data on the interplanetary environment before and after planetary encounter.

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MARINER 5 (VENUSIAN PROBE) · ATLAS SLV3