MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES August 4-10, 2005 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o Dunes of Herschel (Released 04 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/04 o Wind-Eroded Landscape (Released 05 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/05 o Windblown Dunes (Released 06 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/06 o Mid-latitude Dunes (Released 07 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/07 o Defrosting Patterns (Released 08 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/08 o Mars at Ls 269 Degrees (Released 09 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/09 o Polar Landforms (Released 10 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/10 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.
