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    What name was shared by the first U.S. satellites to sail by the planets Venus, Mars and Mercury?

    Question #81245. Asked by RIPMOM04. (May 31 07 4:27 AM)


    srini701

    		Mariner

    http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~js/space/lectures/lec13.html

    May 31 07, 4:52 AM
    MonkeyOnALeash

    		Space Probes rather than Satellites.

    Actually.....According to wiki...."robotic interplanetary probes."

    May 31 07, 5:07 AM
    MonkeyOnALeash

    		Since Mariners 8 & 9 did enter ito a Planetary Orbit around Mars, they were, at that stage, technically satellites.

    May 31 07, 5:10 AM

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