CONTENTS
[FOREWORD] [ACKNOWLEDGMENTS] [CHAPTER 1 VENUS] [The Double Star of the Ancient World] [The Consensus prior to Mariner II] [The Cytherean Riddle: Living World or Incinerated Planet] [CHAPTER 2 PREPARING FOR SPACE] [A Problem in Celestial Dynamics] [The Organization] [NASA: For Science] [JPL: JATO to Mariner] [General Dynamics: The Atlas] [Lockheed: Agena B] [CHAPTER 3 THE SPACECRAFT] [The Spaceframe] [The Power System] [CC&S: The Brain and the Stopwatch] [Telecommunications: Relaying the Data] [Attitude Control: Balancing in Space] [Propulsion System] [Temperature Control] [The Scientific Instruments] [CHAPTER 4 THE LAUNCH VEHICLE] [The Atlas Booster: Power of Six 707’s] [The Agena B: Start and Restart] [CHAPTER 5 FLIGHT INTO SPACE] [Mariner I: An Abortive Launch] [Mariner II: A Roll before Parking] [The Parking Orbit] [Orientation and Midcourse Maneuver] [The Long Cruise] [Encounter and Beyond] [The Record of Mariner] [CHAPTER 6 THE TRACKING NETWORK] [Deep Space Instrumentation Facility] [The Goldstone Complex] [The Woomera Station] [The Johannesburg Station] [Mobile Tracking Station] [CHAPTER 7 THIRTEEN MILLION WORDS] [Communication Control] [The Operations Center] [Central Computing Facility] [CHAPTER 8 THE SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS] [Data Conditioning System] [Cosmic Dust Detector] [Solar Plasma Experiment] [High-energy Radiation Experiment] [The Magnetometer] [Microwave Radiometer] [Infrared Radiometer] [Mariner’s Scientific Objectives] [CHAPTER 9 THE LEGACY OF MARINER] [Space without Dust?] [The Ubiquitous Solar Wind] [High-energy Particles: Fatal Dosage?] [A Magnetic Field?] [The Surface: How Hot?] [Cloud Temperatures: The Infrared Readings] [The Radar Profile: Measurements from Earth] [CHAPTER 10 THE NEW LOOK OF VENUS] [APPENDIX] [INDEX]