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Mariner 8 during solar arrays installation

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-son05-00302

Date

2006-11-26

Technicians prepare to install a solar panel on the Mariner H spacecraft in preparation for its launch to Mars. Following the may 8 1971 launch, the spacecraft was designated Mariner 8. A second Mariner Mars spacecraft has been launched 10 days later. Mariner 8 never reached the planet Mars but Mariner 9 successfully orbited the red planet in november 1971.