\<COLOUR 1> CLOSEST APPROACH: \<COLOUR 0> 9,600 km, July 15, 1965
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USA
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> The first successful probe to Mars, and the first planetary probe to return images, from a record communications distance of 220 million km; 21 overlapping images obtained.