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The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-son27-40001

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 25 cm

The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was launched on November 07 1996 and put in Mars' orbit in September 1997. After studying Mars four times as long as originally planned, the spacecraft gave its final transmission on November 2006.

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1996 - CAPE CANAVERAL - HUMAN - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR - PREPARATION - SPACE - SPACE CENTER - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE -