Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to visit Mercury and the first to perform a fly
Mariner 10 flight spare
Reprocessed Mariner 10 data was used to produce this image of Mercury. The smooth band is an area of which no images were taken.
An artists' impression of the Mariner 10 mission. It used a flyby of the planet Venus to decrease its perihelion. This would allow the spacecraft to meet Mercury on three occasions in 1974 and 1975.
An illustration showing the instruments of Mariner 10
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. Similar in size and mass to Earth, Venus has no liquid water, and its atmosphere is far thicker and denser than that of any other rocky body in the Solar Syste
Mariner 10
…Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to visit Mercury and the first to perform a flyby of multiple planets. Mariner 10 was launched approximately two years…
False color image of Venus as taken by Mariner 10 in 1974.
Spherical view of radar data of the surface of Venus, highlighting surface features (1989, Magellan). The colours do not represent the appearance of the surface in visible light.
Radar mosaic of two pancake domes in Venus's Eistla region—both 65 km (40 mi) wide and less than 1 km (0.62 mi) high
Impact craters on the surface of Venus (false-colour, 3D projection image reconstructed from radar data)