Evidence for Recent Wind Action on Martian Sand Dunes
Description: Recognizing that Mars is a desert planet, science fiction writers, scientists, and proponents of Mars exploration have, for decades, written and talked about The Sands of Mars. The first martian sa... More
Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars
Gullies eroded into the wall of a meteor impact crater in Noachis Terra. This high resolution view (top left) from the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) shows channels and associated aprons o... More
Mars Global Surveyor Preparations
At Launch Complex 17A on Cape Canaveral Air Station, the Mars Global Surveyor upper stage booster assembly is being encased in the Delta II payload fairing. Liftoff of the first in a series of U.S. missions to ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facil...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC, installation is under way of the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The MOC is one of a suite of... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facil...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC, installation is under way of the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The MOC is one of a suite of... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facil...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC, installation is under way of the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The MOC is one of a suite of... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facil...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at KSC, installation is under way of the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The MOC is one of a suite of... More
NASA Space Science. NASA public domain image colelction.
Workers at the Jet Propulsion Research Lab (JPL) in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) prepare the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft for transfer to the launch pad by placing it in a protective canis... More
A McDonnell Douglas DELTA II Space Launch Vehicle sits poised on Compl...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: Rvits Still Image Laboratory ... More
NASA Space Science. NASA public domain image colelction.
The journey back to Mars begins with a liftoff of the Mars Global Surveyor atop a Delta II 7925A expendable launch vehicle from the Cape Canaveral Air Station. After an approximate 10-month interplanetary odyss... More
Mars Global Surveyor Spacecraft - NASA Mars images
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) workers in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF) prepare the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft for transfer to the launch pad by placing it in a protective canister. The ... More
Mars Global Surveyor Approach Image
This image is the first view of Mars taken by the Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter Camera (MOC). It was acquired the afternoon of July 2, 1997 when the MGS spacecraft was 17.2 million kilometers (10.7 million miles... More
Rover, Airbags & Martian Terrain, Mars Pathfinder Images
This picture from Mars Pathfinder was taken at 9:30 AM in the martian morning (2:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time), after the spacecraft landed earlier today (July 4, 1997). The Sojourner rover is perched on one of ... More
Medusae Fossae #1, NASA Mars Images
Extensive wind-swept plains of the Medusae Fossae formation on Mars. This northern subframe image, frame 3104, is of a 3.0 x 4.7 km area centered near 2.4 degrees north, 163.8 degrees west. Science Magazine, V... More
Hubble Watches the Red Planet as Mars Global Surveyor Begins Aerobraki...
Hubble Watches the Red Planet as Mars Global Surveyor Begins Aerobraking JPL/NASA/STScI
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsula...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), the Mars Climate Orbiter (top) is lowered toward the third stage of the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle below it, ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsula...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), the Mars Climate Orbiter (right) is lifted to move it for mating to the third stage of the Boeing Delta II launch... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsula...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), the third stage of the Boeing Delta II launch vehicle (left) waits for mating with the Mars Climate Orbiter (righ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsula...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility -2 (SAEF-2), workers check on the fitting between the Mars Climate Orbiter (above) and the third stage of the Boeing Delta II ... More
The Geodesy Campaign. NASA public domain image colelction.
Description: (May 17, 1999) Every day, Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) circles the red planet just over twelve times, and from their vantage point at 400 km altitude, the fisheye lenses of the Mars Orbiter Camera (M... More
Alexey Tolstoy Crater. NASA public domain image colelction.
Description: (1999) The circular, polar orbit of Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) achieved in early 1999 has begun to provide many opportunities to examine features in the martian southern hemisphere at high resoluti... More
Mars and Syrtis Major, NASA history collection
Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space- based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope... More
Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars
Description: (June 22, 2000) This image, acquired by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) in May 2000 shows numerous examples of martian gullies that all start--or head--in a specific layer ... More
Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars
Newton Crater is a large basin formed by an asteroid impact that probably occurred more than 3 billion years ago. It is approximately 287 kilometers (178 miles) across. The picture shown here (top) highlights t... More
Evidence for Recent Liquid Water on Mars: Gullies
ully landforms proposed to have been caused by geologically-recent seepage and runoff of liquid water on Mars are found in the most unlikely places. They typically occur in areas that are quite cold, well below... More
To Bonneville and Beyond - NASA Mars images
The route of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, from its landing site to its location on sol 72 (March 16, 2004) near the rim of the large crater dubbed "Bonneville" is pictured here on this traverse map. Th... More
Mars Odyssey Seen by Mars Global Surveyor 3-D
This stereoscopic picture of NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft was created from two views of that spacecraft taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA Mars Global Surveyor. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image... More
Mars Global Surveyor. NASA public domain image colelction.
Mars Global Surveyor accomplished all of its science goals, and is currently in an extended mission phase. NASA Identifier: SPD-MARS-mgsgalleryimages_spacecraft
Mars Global Surveyor. NASA public domain image colelction.
Mars Global Surveyor accomplished all of its science goals, and is currently in an extended mission phase. NASA Identifier: SPD-MARS-mgsgalleryimages_spacecraft
Mars global surveyor cropped. NASA public domain image colelction.
Public domain photograph of a satellite, space exploration, NASA artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mars global surveyor. NASA public domain image colelction.
Artist concept of the Mars Global Surveyor. Public domain photograph of a satellite, space exploration, NASA artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph... More
