MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES July 28 - August 3, 2005 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o South Polar Variety (Released 28 July 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/28 o Sedimentary Rock Remnants (Released 29 July 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/29 o Exhuming Craters (Released 30 July 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/30 o Nilosyrtis Dunes (Released 31 July 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/31 o Frozen Carbon Dioxide (Released 01 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/01 o Mars at Ls 269 Degrees (Released 02 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/02 o Wind-Eroded Terrain (Released 03 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/03 All of the Mars Global Surveyor images are archived here: 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.
