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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]
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. ...
This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.
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:
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 ...
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 ...
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
The Phobos monolith (right of center, casting long shadow) as taken by the Mars Global Surveyor (MOC Image 55103, 1998). The location of the monolith (HiRISE image PIA10368) The Phobos monolith is a large rock on the surface of Mars' moon Phobos. [1] It is a boulder, about 85 m (279 ft) across and 90 m (300 ft) tall.