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.
Overview of the Mars Global Surveyor mission
2001-10-25
Miscellaneous
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English
Mars Global Surveyor: Aerobraking Mission Overview
AIAA | 1999
|Mars Global Surveyor: Aerobraking Mission Overview
NTRS | 1998
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
|NTRS | 1994
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
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