But if Mariner 10’s mission was historic, so was the Boeing-built spacecraft itself, which for the first time used the gravity of one world (Venus) to reach another (Mercury) and in doing so ...

Pieces of Mercury may have been found on Earth, potentially allowing scientists to study the Solar System's innermost planet.

Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner series and the first spacecraft to use the gravitational pull of one planet (Venus) to reach another (Mercury). It was also the first probe ...

Image of Mercury captured by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft, the first probe to visit Mercury. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/USGS) Even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, its surface can ...

Mariner 10, which performed one flyby of Venus and three flybys of Mercury in the 1970s, was the first spacecraft to view the first rock from the Sun. Solomon explained that the data from Mariner ...

MESSENGER was the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury and the second spacecraft to study it up close after NASA's Mariner 10 flew by the planet in the 1970s. MESSENGER spent four years orbiting Mercury.

When Mariner 4 flew by Mars on July 15, 1965, it captured the first images of another planet from space. But the first image of Mars ever seen on TV was different than expected.

In particular, unlike Mariner 10 and MESSENGER, the Mio spacecraft is equipped with a full suite of plasma wave instrument (PWI, Principal Investigator Prof. Kasaba) designed specifically to ...