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Mariner 5
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<p>Mariner 5 (Mariner V or Mariner Venus 1967) was a spacecraft of the <a href="/facts/Mariner_program/r8WmLtgy">Mariner program</a> that carried a complement of experiments to probe <a href="/facts/Venus/pADnueP6">Venus</a>' atmosphere by <a href="/facts/Radio_occultation/0RFdxflu">radio occultation</a>, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and <a href="/facts/Magnetic_field/Ta8Ev588">magnetic field</a> fluctuations above the <a href="/facts/Planet/rbPjE6Bx">planet</a>. Its goals were to measure interplanetary and Venusian magnetic fields, charged particles, plasma, radio refractivity and UV emissions of the Venusian atmosphere. </p>