Mars Global Surveyor Passes 25,000 Orbits
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor has completed more than 25,000 orbits of the red planet, using the spare Mars Observer camera it carries to collect more than 180,000 images of the surface with resolution as fine as 50 cm. (20 in.). Launched on Nov. 7, 1997, the spacecraft also relayed science data and...
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