MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES August 18-24, 2005 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o Polar Polygons (Released 18 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/18 o South Polar Layers (Released 19 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/19 o The Defrosting South (Released 20 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/20 o Sediments of Arabia (Released 21 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/21 o West Argyre (Released 22 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/22 o Mars at Ls 269 Degrees (Released 23 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/23 o Valley Crossing (Released 24 August 2005) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/08/24 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.
