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Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was an American robotic space probe developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. MGS was a global mapping mission that examined the entire planet, from the ionosphere down through the atmosphere to the surface. [1]
MOLA topographic images of the two hemispheres of Mars. This image appeared on the cover of Science magazine in May 1999. The Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) was one of five instruments on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, which operated in Mars orbit from September 1997 to November 2006. However, the MOLA instrument transmitted ...
Mars Surveyor may refer to various NASA Mars probes: Mars Global Surveyor, single orbiter launched in 1996; Mars Surveyor 1998, where NASA lost both probes: Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter), and; Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander) Mars Surveyor 2001, of which there were also to be two probes:
Pages in category "Mars Global Surveyor" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Planned as augmentation to return data from the penetrators and surface stations of the Russian Mars '94 mission and from penetrators, surface stations, a rover, and a balloon from the Mars '96 mission. [17] Principal investigator: Jacques Blamont / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; reincorporated on Mars Global Surveyor
A second camera of the same specifications, renamed to Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), was built (with assistance by California Institute of Technology) and launched on board the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft in 1996. The camera returned 243,668 images while in orbit around Mars, before the loss of the MGS spacecraft in 2006. [1]
James B. Garvin served as NASA's Chief Scientist from October 2004 to September 2005 and is known for his foundational work in NASA's Mars explorational programs. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Garvin arrived at the Goddard Space Flight Center since 1984 where he first served as a staff scientist developing remote sensing instrumentation and has been based there ...
Mars Global Surveyor's Thermal Emission Spectrometer. The Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) is an instrument on board Mars Global Surveyor. TES collects two types of data, hyperspectral thermal infrared data from 6 to 50 micrometres (μm) and bolometric visible-NIR (0.3 to 2.9 μm) measurements. TES has six detectors arranged in a 2x3 array ...