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Mars Global Surveyor - Stunning pictures of the Martian surface

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“The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) first acquired images of Mars during its approach to the red planet in mid-1997. The spacecraft began orbiting Mars in September 1997. Following a period of aerobraking to achieve a nearly-circular, nearly-polar orbit, MGS began systematic operations in March 1999. The primary mission was conducted for 1 Mars year, through January 2001. An extended mission phase followed. The current plan is to keep the spacecraft and MOC experiment operational through September 2004.

Hundreds of MOC images with captions describing their contents have been compiled and released by the MOC team at Malin Space Science Systems since 1997.”

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