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Mission · NASA · Completed
Mariner 10
- Launched —
- 1973-11-03
- Programme —
- Mariner
Encounter order — not trajectory
- 1. 1974-02-05 · Venus · gravity assistMariner 10 uses Venus to reach Mercury — the first gravity assist to another planet
- 2. 1974-03-29 · Mercury · flybyMariner 10 passes Mercury — the first spacecraft to reach it
- 3. 1975-03-16 · Mercury · flybyMariner 10’s third and final Mercury pass
An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.
Dates are the operator’s mission record; none was network-verified in this production run, and the record says so.
Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →
Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).