Surveyor Returning New Images

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

Mars Global Surveyor is healthy and all of its science instruments are turned on. A gimbal, or hinge, on the spacecraft's dish-shaped high-gain antenna still has a restriction that limits its range of motion, but this will have no effect on the mission until next February when the Mars-to-Earth geometry will again prevent the antenna from pointing continuously at Earth.