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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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Mar 20, 2025
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov

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Phil James (Univ. Toledo), Steve Lee (Univ. Colorado), and NASA