... Target Name: Mercury . Spacecraft: Mariner 10 . Produced by: USGS, and NASA . Copyright: Public Domain . ... Mercury was constructed from photos taken by Mariner 10 six hours before the spacecraft flew past the planet on March 29, 1974 ...
... Target Name: Venus . Spacecraft: Magellan . Produced by: NASA/USGS . ... The Magellan spacecraft imaged more than 98% of Venus at a resolution of about 100 ... were filled with altimetry from the Venera spacecraft and the U.S. Pioneer Venus ...
... This view of the asteroid 243 Ida was acquired by the Galileo spacecraft at ranges of 3,057 to 3,821 kilometers (1,900 to 2,375 miles) on August 28, 1993, about 3.5 minutes before the spacecraft made its close approach to the asteroid. ...
... The last of the Luna series of spacecraft, the mission of the Luna 24 probe was the third Soviet mission to retrieve lunar ground samples (the first two were returned by Luna 16 and 20). ...
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... This spacecraft was controlled by radio command from Earth. ... system obtained a series of photographs that were developed on-board the spacecraft ... form on October 18, 1959, as the spacecraft, in a barycentric orbit, returned near ...