August 22, 2003

Sightseeing on Mars Astronomy.com

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Global Surveyor at August 22, 2003 12:00 PM

In orbit around the Red Planet since 1997, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has captured more than 123,000 pictures of the martian surface. But according to Ken Edgett of Malin Space Science Systems, the group that operates Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), the camera's narrow-angle (high-resolution) system has only examined about 3 percent of the planet's craters, dunes, gullies, canyons, volcanoes, and other surface features. Now, Edgett and other members of the camera team are looking for some help to select future martian locales to image up close. They've established a website where you — yes, you — can submit ideas for where Mars Global Surveyor's camera looks next.

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