Sentences with phrase «mgs moc»

At the same time that MSSS started work on the MGS MOC in the mid-1990s, the company was developing a very small, modular camera system for future spacecraft flight opportunities.

CTX was a new camera design; it acquires mono - and stereoscopic grayscale images at nearly MGS MOC resolution (6 m / pixel from 300 km altitude) over a much larger field - of - view (30 km).

Michael Malin, President of MSSS, is a member of the MER science investigation team, and Principal Investigator for the MGS MOC.

The martian moon, Phobos, as it appeared to the MGS MOC in June 2003.

The relay system used computer space on the MGS MOC camera provided by MSSS.

Not exact matches

Researchers have known of gullies on the Mars since 2000, when the MGS spacecraft's Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)- built by Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California - first observed the eye - catching landforms.

MARCI is critical to extending and enhancing the record of continuous daily weather observations that began in April 1999 with the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC).

This composite of 7.5 km (4.7 mi) per pixel daily global images, acquired by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), shows water ice clouds over and to the east (right) of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER - B), Opportunity, landing site in Meridiani Planum.

In 2006, MSSS completed 10 years of operation of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) and began operating the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) and Context Camera (CTX) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Over the past 19 years, Malin Space Science Systems has featured other heart - shaped martian landforms on Valentine's Day in images acquired by MRO CTX and the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC).

On the first day of the Mapping Phase of the MGS mission — during the second week of March 1999 — MOC was greeted with this view of «Happy Face Crater» (center right) smiling back at the camera from its location on the east side of Argyre Planitia.

Happy Face The story of the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) onboard the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft began with a proposal to NASA in 1985.

Now, it seems as if the planet is sending its love with the this picture from MGS's Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC).

The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) science investigation used 3 instruments: a narrow angle camera that obtained grayscale (black - and - white) high resolution images (typically 1.5 to 12 m per pixel) and red and blue wide angle cameras for context (240 m per pixel) and daily global imaging (7.5 km per pixel).

The first picture shown here is a color composite of four MGS Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) wide angle images; the second is the same as the first, but indicates the location of Phobos.

In 2004 — 2006, as part of its contract to the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory for Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) operations, MSSS assisted with the relay of MER data from Mars, through the MOC, back to Earth.

After the spacecraft was lost in August 1993, MSSS participated in NASA - sponsored studies aimed at recovering from the loss and was selected to build the flight spare MOC for NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS).

MGS was launched in 1996 and the MOC was operated by MSSS for 10 years — from calibration and Mars meteorological imaging during the interplanetary cruise phase, through the spacecraft orbit insertion aerobraking period, the MGS primary mission, and multiple extended missions.