Mariner 4 sends first clear pictures of Mars

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The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Satellites, Probes, Rockets

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Date of occurrence 1965

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United States (Location)

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Mariner 4

, the NASA space probe, was launched from Cape Canaveral on the 28th November, 1964. The probe flew past Mars, returning the first clear pictures of the planet's surface, on July the 14th and 15th, 1965.

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