The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was placed into Mars orbit on September 11, 1997, and by March 9, 1999, had slowly circularized through aerobraking to a Sun-synchronous, near-polar orbit with an average altitude of 378 km.


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    Title :

    Overview of the Mars Global Surveyor mission


    Contributors:
    Thorpe, T. (author) / Palluconi, F. (author) / Arvidson, R. (author) / Albee, A. (author)

    Publication date :

    2001-10-25


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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