# JPL-19621214-MARINRf-0001-AVC2002150 First Flyby of Another Planet Mariner 2

Mariner 2's flyby of Venus on Dec. 14, 1962, was the first successful robotic spacecraft encounter with another planet. Includes animation.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1962
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JPL-19621214-MARINRf-0001-AVC2002150_First_Flyby_of_Another_Planet_Mariner_2.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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