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Palluconi, F.

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Overview of the Mars Global Surveyor mission

The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was placed into Mars orbit on September 11, 1997, and by March 9, 1999, had slowly circularized through aerobraking to a Sun-synchronous, near-polar orbit with an average altitude of 378 km.

Mars

EOS ASTER thermal infrared band vicarious calibration

Calibration of the 5 EOS ASTER instrument emission bands (90 m pixels at surface) is being checked during the operational life of the mission using field measurements simultaneous with the image acquisition.

EOS ASTER thermal infrared calibration