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... -03-13.pdf Space News for this day. (3MB PDF) New data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Mission provided insights into the planet's deeply layered terrain, its strong, localized magnetic fields ... , publishing the first set of formal results in the 13 March 1998 issue of Science. Mars Global Surveyor had used a variety of instruments to collect data. The thermal emission spectrometer had mapped ...

... Mars Global Surveyor were operating, and that the craft had begun mapping Mars, approximately one year later than originally planned. NASA had launched the craft in November 1996, and Surveyor had entered orbit around Mars in ... Mar 10 1999 10 Mar 11 1999 11 Mar 12 1999 12 Mar 13 1999 13 Mar 14 1999 14 Mar 15 1999 15 Mar 16 1999 16 Mar 17 1999 17 Mar 18 1999 18 Mar 19 1999 19 Mar ...

... Mars once had a wet climate. According to Zuber, "Evidence is building of more water on the surface of Mars at one time." The researchers had used the laser measurements taken by Mars Global Surveyor to reach their conclusions. Although Zuber indicated that scientists did not yet have enough evidence to determine whether Mars ...

... /hiwish NASA has provided other opportunities for the public to see and explore Mars. A camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor imaged 1,086 targets suggested through a public-request program from 2003 until 2006. Launched on Nov. 7, 1996, the probe pioneered the use of aerobraking at Mars and ...

... Mars Global Surveyor in 1998 the United States has sent a fleet of robots to Mars with wildly varying degrees of success. Thanks to these versatile probes we now know almost as much about Mars on a global scale as we do about our own Earth. In Mars - The NASA Mission Reports the triumphs and tribulations of the American Mars program is gathered together ...

... to develop two small spacecraft that will explore Mars in 1998. They will be half the weight and cost of the 1996 Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Pathfinder . Their low weights of the new orbiter ... Mar 10 1995 10 Mar 11 1995 11 Mar 12 1995 12 Mar 13 1995 13 Mar 14 1995 14 Mar 15 1995 15 Mar 16 1995 16 Mar 17 1995 17 Mar 18 1995 18 Mar 19 1995 19 Mar ...

... , as the amount of sunshine hitting the robot's solar panels declined during autumn on Mars' southern hemisphere. Unfortunately, mobility problems prevented rover operators from positioning Spirit with a favorable tilt ... at Mars belongs to a later orbiter: NASA's Mars Global Surveyor operated for more than 9 years after arriving in 1997. NASA's Mars Odyssey, in orbit since in 2001, has been working at Mars ...

... farther and orbital footprints are getting smaller. Ten years ago, an imaging spectrometer on the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter found an Oklahoma-sized area with a type of the mineral hematite exposed. This ... . The mission has returned more planetary data than all other Mars missions combined. JPL manages the Mars Exploration Rovers and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The ...

... the exploration of Mars up to date. Including the latest results from the amazingly successful Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, as well as progress reports from the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey missions. Includes: DVD-V/DVD-ROM featuring: Exclusive interviews with Mars Rover Mission Scientist ...

... of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 57 57 '''Page ''' - 75-86 '''Year''' - 2004 '''Keywords''' - Mars Atmosphere, meteorology, climate '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2004.57.75 '''Number of Pages''' - 12 Abstract Weather ... unmanned missions to Mars, such as NASA's Mars Pathfinder, Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey, there is now a great deal of information available on the range of environ- mental conditions on Mars, from the tropics ...

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