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Mars Global Surveyor
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Word has leaked out that in its new budget, the Obama administration intends to terminate NASA's planetary exploration program. The Mars Science Lab Curiosity, being readied on the pad, will be launched, as will the nearly completed small MAVEN orbiter scheduled for 2013, but that will be it. No further missions to anywhere are planned. After 2013, America's amazing career of planetary exploration, which ran from the Mariner probes in the 1960s through the great Pioneer, Viking, Voyager, Pathfinder, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Spirit, Opportunity, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Galileo and Cassini missions, will simply end.
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To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Dwayne Brown, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358- 1726, or Guy Webster, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-6278, both of NASA
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LOS ANGELES - New photographs from space suggest that water occasionally flows on the frigid surface of Mars, raising the tantalizing possibility that the Red Planet is hospitable to life, scientists reported Wednesday. The new images, taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor before it lost contact with Earth, do not actually show flowing water. Rather, they show changes in craters that provide the strongest evidence yet that water coursed through them as recently as several years ago, and is perhaps doing so even now.
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AS we say goodbye to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory managed Mars Global Surveyor, it is with tremendous appreciation for this 10- year-old orbiter's contributions to understanding our solar system. The orbiting spacecraft, launched Nov. 7, 1996, revolutionized the study of the Red Planet by revealing Mars' watery past, and by showing that those polar ice caps are made mostly of water ice.
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NASA scientists announced Wednesday that they had found evidence that water still flows over the surface of Mars - sporadic gushers that increase the possibility that the Red Planet could harbor some form of life. Using images obtained by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, the researchers concluded that geologic changes in the shapes and sizes of gullies cut into the walls of two Martian craters were likely made by flowing water.
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LOS ANGELES A provocative new study of photographs taken from orbit suggests that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as several years ago, raising the possibility that the Red Planet could harbor an environment favorable to life. The crisp images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor do not directly show water. Rather, they show apparently recent changes in surface features that provide the strongest evidence yet that water even now sometimes flows on the dusty, frigid world. Water and a stable heat source are considered keys for life to emerge.
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LA CAADA FLINTRIDGE - The disappearance of the JPL-managed Mars Global Surveyor in November was caused by a human error made five months earlier, NASA announced Friday morning. In its 10 years orbiting Mars, the satellite returned the first evidence of water-bearing minerals on the martian surface, helped pinpoint landing sites for the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and detected evidence that bursts of water still occasionally flows on the martian surface.
