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Mariner 2 had a bumpy ride. Shortly after launch on Aug.
The new compare tool displays distance and elevation along your activity. Selected activities are projected onto your activity path along all sections where you. Flyby Locations Hide Others Find who you passed or flyby'd. Playback multiple activities together. More Info • Change Activity. A Strava Labs project, learn more.
But the short circuit mysteriously healed itself about a minute later, NASA officials said. Things got dicey during Mariner 2's cruise to Venus, too. A solar panel on the spacecraft stopped working on two separate occasions, and attitude-controlling gyroscopes misbehaved.
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Further, the probe's temperature rose dramatically as it approached Venus, causing managers to worry that Mariner 2 might be cooked before it could complete its mission. But Mariner 2 overcame all of this, and the rest is history. In addition to lifting Venus' veil, the spacecraft's observations also confirmed the existence of the solar wind and enabled scientists to refine the value of the astronomical unit — the distance from Earth to the sun, which is about 93 million miles million km.
In the half-century after Mariner 2's close encounter, other spacecraft have further studied the second planet from the sun. The Soviet Union even landed a number of probes on Venus' surface, beginning with Venera 7 in But Mariner 2 will always have a special place in history.
Planet Venus is often likened to Earth but with a runaway greenhouse problem. Near mile 10, black accelerates and drops blue.
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Black is now moving the fastest. At the time shown as red nears mile 11, black is only about 30 seconds behind.
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Flyby Locations See exactly where you passed by others on your activity. The Map Shows the position at the given time and full path of every selected activity. This means that the activity was within 50 meters of you at some point, and did not ride with you for an extended period of time has a low correlation.
C orrelation Percentage of time that this activity was close to the primary activity. S patial Correlation Time independent similarity of activity to the primary activity. An activity travelling the same course will have a high spatial correlation regardless of the speed or start time of the activity.
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