Astronomy
The Mars Global Surveyor was launched in 1996, and had operated four times as long as it had been intended. After a series of events including on board computer memory and ground commands, the spacecraft was unable to orient itself due to battery failure. Last communicating on November 2, 2006, it succumbed to this fate 11 hours after this. This article on NASA's website reports what had happened:
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Astronomy
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Has Been Lost
The Mars Global Surveyor was launched in 1996, and had operated four times as long as it had been intended. After a series of events including on board computer memory and ground commands, the spacecraft was unable to orient itself due to battery failure. Last communicating on November 2, 2006, it succumbed to this fate 11 hours after this. This article on NASA's website reports what had happened:
On Nov. 2, after the spacecraft was ordered to perform a routine adjustment of its solar panels, the spacecraft reported a series of alarms, but indicated that it had stabilized. That was its final transmission. Subsequently, the spacecraft reoriented to an angle that exposed one of two batteries carried on the spacecraft to direct sunlight. This caused the battery to overheat and ultimately led to the depletion of both batteries. Incorrect antenna pointing prevented the orbiter from telling controllers its status, and its programmed safety response did not include making sure the spacecraft orientation was thermally safe.The Mars Global Surveyor has given us a wealth of information about the red planet, including evidence of water on Mars.
To learn more about this, visit:
- NASA's Mar Global Surveyor mission website
- Wikipedia(Mars Global Surveyor and Mars)
- Global Martian Map Being Developed By Nasa For Public Display And Research
Scientists with the help of camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft constructed a map using 21,000 images Thermal Emission Imaging System. You can just log into jmars and have a look yourself. You can zoom around the images of Mars and it looks...
- Water Everywhere On Mars And Moon
Yes water, water is everywhere on Moon and Mars.......Ice deposits at least 6 feet can be found in some small craters on the Moon it was reported by researchers on 12 th April 2010 as the studies showed evidence of water on Moon and Mars . According to...
- Mars Orbiter Imagery Boosts Curiosity Rover's Life Search
NASA and university scientists reviewing data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) say evidence is growing that the planet harbored life in its past or that Martian microbes exist now. They say their views are based on the growing body of data...
- Seven Minutes Of Terror!
Seven Minutes of Terror! That's what the spacecraft and the team working on the Phoenix spacecraft will go through, when Phoenix attempts a landing this Sunday on Mars. This is when the space vehicle will first hit the atmosphere of Mars, go through...
- The Phoenix
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