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Originally Posted by kenneth rodman
WE ACTUALLY used gravity assit to launch one of our earlier probs to jupiter.
the probe went around venus, then around earh thenaround venus one more time before hurling towards its destnation if I remember correctly.
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That was the Cassini/Huygens probe illustrated in rc2000's link above. It was actually Venus-Venus-Earth. But it doesn't really answer the actual question, since OP was asking why not Mars, since it's between us and the outer reaches?