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Mars Global Surveyor Images - September 4-10, 2003
MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
September 4-10, 2003 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o South Polar Polygons (Released 04 September 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/.../04/index.html o Dune and Dust Devil Streak (Released 05 September 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/.../05/index.html o Layers in East Candor (Released 06 September 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/.../06/index.html o Brazos Valles Dunes (Released 07 September 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/.../07/index.html o Arabia's Auqakuh Vallis (Released 08 September 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/.../08/index.html o North Polar Dune Patterns (Released 09 September 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/.../09/index.html o Oblique Olympus Mons (Released 10 September 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/.../10/index.html All of the Mars Global Surveyor images are archived he http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/index.html Mars Global Surveyor was launched in November 1996 and has been in Mars orbit since September 1997. It began its primary mapping mission on March 8, 1999. Mars Global Surveyor is the first mission in a long-term program of Mars exploration known as the Mars Surveyor Program that is managed by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) and the California Institute of Technology built the MOC using spare hardware from the Mars Observer mission. MSSS operates the camera from its facilities in San Diego, CA. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Surveyor Operations Project operates the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft with its industrial partner, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, from facilities in Pasadena, CA and Denver, CO. |
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