Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4662.&link_type=abstract
"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4662. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Space Missions, Solar System Missions
Scientific paper
Series of Soviet spacecraft designed to return data about the planet Mars 1960-74. After several launch failures, Mars 1 successfully left Earth orbit in 1962 but contact was lost en route. Mars 2 and 3 arrived during the 1971 global duststorm which obscured the planet's surface, so no useful pictures were obtained. They also carried landers and the first automated planetary roving vehicles, but ...
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