Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was an American robotic space probe developed by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, launched on November 7, 1996, and operating in orbit around Mars from 1997 to 2006. It was a global mapping mission examining the entire planet from its ionosphere down through the atmosphere to the surface. As part of the wider Mars Exploration Program, it also performed atmospheric monitoring for other orbiters during their own aerobraking and helped identify candidate landing sites for later Mars rovers and landers.
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NASA officially ended the mission in January 2007. An investigation attributed the loss of the spacecraft to a flaw in an update to its system softwareView the Source 2. Mars Global Surveyor - Wikipedia
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Mars orbiter
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7 November 1996, 17:00 UTC
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- In Group: Mars Orbiters and Flyby Probes, Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was an American robotic space probe developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It was launched on November 7, 1996, and collected data in orbit around Mars from 199
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Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was an American robotic space probe developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Operated By: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lead paragraph, operator
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was an American robotic space probe developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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