Report of the Organic Contamination Science Steering Group (OCSSG)
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The primary focus of this study was organic contamination introduced into those Mars samples that would be delivered to sensitive analytical instruments after processing by lander acquisition and sampling devices.
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.
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.
The objectives of the ASTER investigation in the thermal infrared include, among other things, providing estimates of the radiance leaving the land surface.