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NASA Provides Mars Global Surveyor Update

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Nov. 21, to discuss the status and science accomplishments of the Mars Global Surveyor. The 10-year old spacecraft is the oldest of five NASA spacecraft currently active at the red planet.


Reporters must call the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., media relations office at 818-354-5011 for participation information. Images supporting the briefing will be posted online at the start of the briefing at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mgs/20061121.html


  Briefing participants:
  -- Michael Meyer, Lead Scientist, Mars Explorations Program, NASA
     Headquarters
  -- Fuk Li, Mars Program Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
     Pasadena, Calif.

  Supporting participants:
  -- Tom Thorpe, Project Manager, Mars Global Surveyor, JPL, Pasadena,
     Calif.
  -- Phil Christensen, Principal Investigator, Thermal Emission
     Spectrometer, Arizona State Univ, Tempe
  -- Michael Malin, Principal Investigator, Mars Orbiter Camera, Malin Space
     Science Systems, San Diego

  Audio of the event will be available on the Internet at:

                      http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

  For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:

                         http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

  For more information about Mars Global Surveyor visit:

                   http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/



CONTACT: Erica Hupp or Dwayne Brown, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-1237, +1-202-358-1726, or Guy Webster, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., +1-818-354-6278, all of NASA


PRNewswire -- Nov. 20


Source: NASA
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Re: NASA Provides Mars Global Surveyor Update
« Reply #1 on: 11/20/2006 07:02 pm »
*Gulp*

I may just be paranoid, but there's something in the wording of that announcement that makes it sound as though hope is quickly slipping away.  Hopefully I'm wrong.  Glad to hear that there's going to be news one way or the other, though.  Thanks for posting this.
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Re: NASA Provides Mars Global Surveyor Update
« Reply #2 on: 11/20/2006 09:23 pm »
"Accomplishments" does have that past tense sound to it the way it is used there doesn't it.

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Re: NASA Provides Mars Global Surveyor Update
« Reply #3 on: 11/21/2006 04:43 pm »
Apparently the wide angle shots from Friday showed something.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5158669,00.html

The HiRise shots should have been processed by now and the fact that no one from HiRise is in the briefing is worrysome.
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Re: NASA Provides Mars Global Surveyor Update
« Reply #4 on: 11/21/2006 05:17 pm »
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Norm Hartnett - 21/11/2006  6:26 PM

Apparently the wide angle shots from Friday showed something.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5158669,00.html

The HiRise shots should have been processed by now and the fact that no one from HiRise is in the briefing is worrysome.
Well, the briefing should give some details.
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“You can’t take a traditional approach and expect anything but the traditional results, which has been broken budgets and not fielding any flight hardware.” Mike Gold - Apollo, STS, CxP; those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it: SLS.

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Re: NASA Provides Mars Global Surveyor Update
« Reply #7 on: 11/21/2006 07:10 pm »
They don't seem very optimistic... well, 10 years is a long time, so maybe it's the end of a little era. Let's see if the little rovers can do something to wake MGS up again... if not, farewell, Surveyor!
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