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50th Anniversary of Planetary Exploration

DARE MIGHTY THINGS 50 TH ANNIVERSARY OF PLANETARY EXPLORATION 2013 AUGUST 6, 2012 First Skycrane Landing Curiosity 2012 DECEMBER 20, 2011 First Detection of Earth-Sized Exoplanet Kepler JULY 27, 2011 First Detection of Earth Trojan Asteroid WISE 2011- JULY 15, 2011 First Protoplanet Orbiter Dawn JANUARY 15, 2006 First Comet Sample Stardust 2006 JULY 4, 2005 First Spacecraft to Impact Comet Deep Impact MARCH 22, 2005 First Direct Detection of Light from Exoplanet Spitzer Space Telescope JUNE 10, 2003 First Long-Range Rovers Spirit and Opportunity FEBRUARY 11, 2000 SEPTEMBER 8, 2004 First Topographic Map of Earth from Space First Solar Wind Sample Genesis Shuttle Radar Topography 1998 OCTOBER 24, 1998 First lon Engine on Planetary Spacecraft Deep Space 1 JULY 4, 1997 First Planetary Rover Mars Pathfinder OCTOBER 15, 1997 First Saturn Orbiter Cassini DECEMBER 8, 1995 First Jupiter Orbiter Galileo OCTOBER 29, 1991 1990 First Asteroid Flyby Galileo AUGUST 25, 1989 First Neptune Flyby Voyager 2 JANUARY 24, 1986 First Uranus Mission Voyager 2 1980 CGG JANUARY 25, 1983 First Infrared Telescope in Space IRAS MARCH 4, 1979 First Images of Volcanic Plumes on Another World Voyager 1 JUNE 27, 1978 First Oceanographic Satellite Seasat AUGUST 20, 1975 First U.S. Spacecraft to Ferry Lander to Mars Viking 1 Orbiter MARCH 29, 1974 First Mercury Mission Mariner 10 FEBRUARY 5, 1974 1974 First Multi-Planet Mission Mariner 10 NOVEMBER 14, 1971 First Planetary Orbiter Mariner 9 1966 JUNE 2, 1966 First U.S. Soft Landing on the Moon Surveyor 1 JULY 15, 1965 First Mars Flyby Mariner 4 JULY 28, 1964 First U.S. Mission to the Moon Ranger 7 1962 DECEMBER 14, 1962 First Planetary Flyby Mariner 2 AUGUST 27, 1962 World's First Planetary Mission Mariner 2 DARE MIGHTY IHINGS 50 TH ANNIVERSARY OF PLANETARY EXPLORATION a scroll to view entire timeline Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology NASA visit the JPL website >

50th Anniversary of Planetary Exploration

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Fifty years ago on a mid-December day, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to the shrouded planet Venus, marking the first time any spacecraft had ever successfully made a close-up study of another planet.

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