Global Surveyor begins long-delayed mapping of Mars

Posted by jburk to Mars Global Surveyor at March 10, 1999 12:00 PM

The Mars Global Surveyor has finally begun mapping the red planet, turning an array of instruments on Earth's dusty neighbor a year later than originally planned. "All our instruments are on now," flight operations manager Joseph Beerer said Tuesday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.