Mars Global Surveyor Images - March 17-23, 2005

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
March 17-23, 2005

The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:

o South Polar Cap (Released 17 March 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/17/

o Frost on Dunes (Released 18 March 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/18/

o 5K Crater (Released 19 March 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/19/

o Layers of Candor (Released 20 March 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/20/

o Dunes of the Frozen North (Released 21 March 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/21/

o Mars at Ls 176 Degrees (Released 22 March 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/22/

o Tharsis Channels (Released 23 March 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/03/23/



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.