MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES April 21-26, 2006 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o Aeolis Buttes (Released 21 April 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/04/21 o South Polar Autumn (Released 22 April 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/04/22 o Memnonia Texture (Released 23 April 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/04/23 o CO2 Hourglass (Released 24 April 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/04/24 o Mars at Ls 39 Degrees (Released 25 April 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/04/25 o Russell Extravaganza (Released 26 April 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/04/26 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.
