Mars Global Surveyor. Artist's impression of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft in orbit around the 'red planet'. After launch in November 1996,MGS will cruise on a direct trajectory to Mars,then enter a highly elliptical orbit. It will then use 'aerobraking' (dipping into the upper atmosphere on each pass) to slow down and to circularise the orbit. By March 1998 it will start a two-year mapping and observation mission. One of its cameras will resolve details just 3 metres across. MGS will perform five of the seven tasks assigned to the defunct Mars Observer mission,and will act as a radio relay for Russian and US landers | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Baum, Julian |
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