An expensive cookbook that arrived in the mail unsolicited,
and a pair of mail-order shoes that just didn't feel right.
The first spacecraft to send back data and images from other planets were the Mariner missions in the 1960s and 1970s. Mariner 4 was the first to capture close-up images of Mars in 1965, followed by Mariner 9 orbiting Mars in 1971.
Mariner 4
The first country was the USA with a spacecraft named mariner 2 and launched in 1962 to go to Venus.
Mariner 11 never sent radio pictures from Mars because it was not a mission that existed. The Mariner program had missions up to Mariner 10, which sent back images of Venus and Mercury.
Mariner 4 went to Mars on Nov. 28, 1964 and came back to Earth on Jul. 14, 1965
Mariner 4 was launched on November 28, 1964.
mariner 4
Mariner 4 was the first ship to visit Mars.
Mariner 4
Mariner 8
Mariner 8
The first spacecraft to visit Mars was Mariner 4. It was launched in 1964 and conducted a flyby of Mars in 1965, sending back the first close-up images of the planet's surface.