Mars Global Surveyor Images - December 9-15, 2004

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
December 9-15, 2004

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

o Lowell's Dunes (Released 09 December 2004)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/12/09/

o Northern Plains "Crater" (Released 10 December 2004)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/12/10/

o Ceraunius Tholus Feature (Released 11 December 2004)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/12/11/

o Exhuming Craters in a Crater (Released 12 December 2004)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/12/12/

o Noachis Pit Crater Gullies (Released 13 December 2004)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/12/13/

o Leveed Channel in Lava Flow (Released 14 December 2004)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/12/14/

o Gullies and Sand (Released 15 December 2004)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/12/15/



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.