NASA monitoring Martian weather for upcoming polar lander, orbiter

High-resolution imagery from the Mars Global Surveyor is helping planners pick a landing site near the Red Planet's south pole for the Mars '98 lander set to touch down there Dec. 3, while Mars Climate Orbiter controllers will use the data to calculate the aerobraking trajectories they will use this...

Subscription Required

 

This content requires a subscription to one of the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) bundles.

Schedule a demo today to find out how you can access this content and similar content related to your area of the global aviation industry.

Already an AWIN subscriber? Login

 

Did you know?  Aviation Week has won top honors multiple times in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.