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INTERNET IMAGE ADVISORY
July 19, 1999
NEW MARS SNAPSHOTS SHOW A DIVERSE PLANET
Summer vacation photos were never like this. A new set of
photographs taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, that
intrepid explorer that has been studying the planet since 1997,
reveals a surface rich in detail.
"This set of photos shows the diversity of things we've been
seeing on Mars during the last several months. We see everything
from sand dunes covered with frost, water ice clouds hanging
over volcanoes and ancient craters being eroded by high winds,"
said Dr. Michael Malin of Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego,
CA, principal investigator for the camera onboard Mars Global
Surveyor. "And they're really pretty!"
The images are being released in conjunction with the Fifth
International Mars Conference being held this week at the
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
The images are available at:
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov or http://www.msss.com
Mars Global Surveyor is the first mission in a long-term
program of Mars exploration known as the Mars Surveyor Program
managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of
Space Science, Washington, DC. JPL is a division of the
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
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