Mars Global Surveyor mission: Overview and status

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5357, 1998, Pages 1671-1672

  Albee, A L ^a   Palluconi, F D ^b   Arvidson, R E ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; GRAVITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROMETER;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR PROJECT; UNMANNED;

ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GRAVITATION; MAGNETICS; MARS; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 0032513333     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5357.1671     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Mars Observer Special Issue, J. Geophys. Res. 97, 7663 (1992).
2. An archive of the data sets used in the papers in this issue is available as a CD-ROM and online through the Planetary Data System Geosciences Node HYPERLINK http://www.pds.geo.wustl.edu.
3. The Mars Surveyor '98 mission includes separate launches of the Mars climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander. The New Millennium Mars Microprobe (DS2) is an experimental "hitchhiker" on the mission.
4. D. Smith et al., Science 279, 1686 (1998).
5. The authors are the Project Scientist (A.L.A.), Deputy Project Scientist (F.D.P.), and the Interdisciplinary Scientist responsible for Data Archiving (R.E.A.) for the Mars Global Surveyor Mission. We are indebted to engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and LMA who have devoted themselves to this mission over the years and who operate the spacecraft today. Our special acknowledgement goes to Glen Cunningham, Project Manager. Portions of the work described in this paper were performed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory under contract to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.