[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Camera Team Begins Daily Mars Picture Postings

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:10:08 2004
Message-ID: <200304161533.IAA03565_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

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IMAGE ADVISORY: 2003-053
April 15, 2003

NASA Orbiter Camera Team Begins Daily Mars Picture Postings

The camera team for NASA's Mars Global Surveyor mission is beginning
daily Internet postings of pictures that showcase the rich diversity
of martian landscapes.

The first "Mars Orbiter Camera Picture of the Day" shows frost-covered
sand dunes in the springtime as they begin to defrost. It is
available online at the camera team's Web site where a different
picture will be posted every day, including weekends and holidays:

http://www.msss.com .

The site will soon add other new features for the public enjoyment of
pictures from Mars, said Dr. Michael Malin, principal investigator for
the Mars Orbital Camera on Global Surveyor. It already offers access
to more than 123,800 images of Mars. The spacecraft has been orbiting
Mars since September 1997.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages Mars Global
Surveyor for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
JPL's industrial partner is Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver,
which developed and operates the spacecraft. The Mars Orbiter Camera
is operated by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego.

Additional information about Mars Global Surveyor is available online
at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/ . For more information about NASA
and other space science programs on the Internet, visit
http://www.nasa.gov http://www.nasa.gov/ .

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