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Hubble Watches the Red Planet as Mars Global Surveyor Begins Aerobraking

This Hubble telescope picture of Mars was taken Sept. 12, 1997, one day after the arrival of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft and only five hours before the beginning of autumn in the Martian Northern Hemisphere. This Hubble picture…

17 de setembro de 1997
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Hubble Watches the Red Planet as Mars Global Surveyor Begins Aerobraking
Mars After the Mars Global Surveyor's Arrival
[RIGHT] This NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture of Mars was taken on Sept. 12, one day after the arrival of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft and only five hours before the beginning of autumn in the Martian northern hemisphere. (Mars is tilted on its axis like Earth,...

This Hubble telescope picture of Mars was taken Sept. 12, 1997, one day after the arrival of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft and only five hours before the beginning of autumn in the Martian Northern Hemisphere.

This Hubble picture was taken in support of the MGS mission. Hubble is monitoring Martian weather conditions, such as large dust storms, during the early phases of the spacecraft's aerobraking.

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