MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES September 21-27, 2006 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available: o Cracky Mars (Released 21 September 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/09/21 o West Candor Rocks (Released 22 September 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/09/22 o Mesa with Apron (Released 23 September 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/09/23 o Yardang City (Released 24 September 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/09/24 o Patterned Plains (Released 25 September 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/09/25 o Mars at Ls 107 Degrees (Released 26 September 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/09/26 o Ganges Quagmire (Released 27 September 2006) http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/09/27 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.
