What is Global Surveyor Mars?

Global Surveyor Mars is a spacecraft launched by the US space agency NASA in November 1996. NASA and power supply laboratory cooperated. The mission was the return of the United States to Mars after a 17 -year break, the last mission Mars was Viking 2 Lander, reached by Mars 3 September 1976. Mars Global Surveyor achieved orbital advertising on August 24, 1993, orbiting every 117.65 minutes. The global inspector Mars was an orbiter whose purpose was to take a picture of the red planet and send them back to Earth. The crafts orbited Mars for almost ten years, and in November 2006 she stopped responding to the country's communication and was declared lost. Global Inspector Mars is significant of two main reasons: first, he has launched a number of missions and public fascination on Mars, which continues to this day, and secondly, only in 2006, he observed evidence that the small amounts water had been running down on the surface of Mars over the past five years.

Global Surveyor Mars is a 1030.5 kg system (2,271 lb) that existed on the 980 W power supply provided by solar panels. The vessel contained five scientific instruments: Orbiter Mars, Orbiter Mars laser altimeter, thermal emission spectrometer, magnetometer and electron reflectometer and ultrastable oscillator for Doppler measurement. Of these, the most interesting thing was probably the camera. Although it cannot be compared with a recruitment camera currently orbiting Mars, the camera was a huge jump in technology compared to fuzzy paintings taken over the 70s and provided important new pictures of Martian surface to pour.

Global Inspector Mars is also remarkable observation of the tracks and the location of the spirit of Mars Rover, who landed on Mars in January 2004.It is unfortunate that the spacecraft was lost in November 2006, but fortunately in March 2007, a few months ago, the orbiter of Mars arrived in orbit around Mars.Equipment, as well as a global inspector as well.

Consider the number of crafts that failed either on the way or on arrival at Mars, sometimes called "The Mars Curse", the Mars Global Surveyor mission has probably proved quite successful, all the things considered.