{"id":109400,"date":"2017-12-09T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:52:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:52:05","slug":"first-manmade-object-to-orbit-another-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/first-manmade-object-to-orbit-another-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First manmade object to orbit another planet, 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/TN1PH3lUniI\/AAAAAAAAByo\/bWYidPbEaUM\/s1600\/800px-Mariner09.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538670113333747234\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/800px-mariner09-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109401\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;\" \/><\/a>On  30th May 1971, an Atlas-Centaur rocket launched from Cape Canaveral  carrying the Mariner 9 spacecraft. NASA&#8217;s Mariner program was an  investigation of Mars, Venus and Mercury using unmanned probes. Mariner  craft achieved many firsts: Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to fly  past another planet (Venus) and Mariner 4 was the first to pass close to  Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The program also had its fair share of setbacks: Mariner 1  was destroyed following a rocket malfunction; Mariner 3 failed to reach  Mars due to a technical fault; and Mariner 8 ended up in the Atlantic  Ocean after an unsuccessful launch. With the demise of Mariner 8, its  identical sister craft was tasked with becoming the first object to  orbit another planet. Mariner 9 arrived at Mars on 13th November when it  entered orbit.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly a year, NASA received data from the  probe&#8217;s infrared and ultraviolet instruments. Mariner 9 also took  photographs of the planet&#8217;s surface after having to wait for a couple of  months because of the amount of dust in Mars&#8217; atmosphere. The  scientists switched Mariner 9 off on 27th October 1972 after it depleted  its supply of gas that fuelled the altitude control.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 30th May 1971, an Atlas-Centaur rocket launched from Cape Canaveral carrying the Mariner 9 spacecraft. NASA&#8217;s Mariner program was an investigation of Mars, Venus and Mercury using unmanned probes. Mariner craft achieved many firsts: Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to fly past another planet (Venus) and Mariner 4 was the first to pass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}