Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Mars 7 (Russian: Марс-7) also known as 3MP No.51P was a Soviet spacecraft launched to explore Mars. A 3MP bus spacecraft which comprised the final mission of the Mars programme it consisted of a lander and a coast stage with instruments to study Mars as it flew past. Due to a malfunction the lander failed to perform a manoeuvre necessary to enter the Martian atmosphere missing the planet and remaining in heliocentric orbit along with the coast stage.
