Mars Global Surveyor rebooted NASA's exploration of the Red Planet, and launched a new strategy for building spacecraft. It started off by debunking "Face on Mars" conspiracy theories.

Mars Global Surveyor launched on Nov. 7, 1996, and began orbiting Mars on Sept. 11, 1997. It pioneered the use of aerobraking at Mars, ...

Preliminary report concludes faulty software update caused inconsistencies in space probe's memory banks.

The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was an orbiter. It transmitted data from NASA's Mars rovers Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity back to Earth. The spacecraft also did a lot of its own science.

Each image from the camera aboard the Mars Global Surveyor covered a 2-mile-wide swath of dunes, rock valleys and jagged ribbons of carbon dioxide ice. Twelve orbits a day, for almost a decade.

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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft has failed to check in with Earth for the fourth straight day in a row now, after losing contact during a routine adjustment of its solar array.

NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida on November 7, 1996, aboard a Delta II rocket. The spacecraft traveled nearly 466 million miles, reaching Mars ...

Mars Surveyor May Have Fallen to Software Issue NASA is investigating the possibility that a software glitch caused the recent demise of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. It had been orbiting ...

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