Space Forum / Space Science / April 2005

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
April 14-20, 2005

The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:

o Polygons in Utopia (Released 14 April 2005)
 http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/04/14/

o Gale Sedimentary Rocks (Released 15 April 2005)
 http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/04/15/

o East Tharsis Flows (Released 16 April 2005)
 http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/04/16/

o Valley Near Moreux (Released 17 April 2005)
 http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/04/17/

o Fretted Terrain Mass Movement (Released 18 April 2005)
 http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/04/18/

o Mars at Ls 193 Degrees (Released 19 April 2005)
 http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/04/19/

o Fractured Ground  (Released 20 April 2005)
 http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/04/20/

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.