🔴 Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet

NASA's Mariner 9 entered orbit around Mars. It waited out a planet-wide dust storm, then mapped most of the surface, revealing giant volcanoes and the Valles Marineris canyon.

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