The Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Global Surveyor
The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) is a planetary geology mission.
The Space Physics Research Group is on board to do planetary magnetometry.
It will also be exploring the solar wind interaction
with Mars, and exploring in detail the Martian magnetic field. MGS
will be launched in 1996, and when it reaches Mars, will attain a circular
polar orbit at an altitude of about 400 km. UCB involvement
in this project consists of the Electron Reflectometer (ER) and the
magnetometer. This instrument is a collaboration between Goddard Space Flight
Center (Mario Acuna of GSFC is the Principal Investagator for MGS), SSL
(which is in charge of the ER), and
CESR in France (which did most of the ER fabrication).
The Electron Reflectometer (ER) is an electron detector that
uses the principle that electrons are reflected in regions of
increasing magnetic field to map the low altitude Martian magnetic
field.
Find out more about Mars Global Surveyor:
The following web pages are primarily data-organization and communications tools that support ongoing research by MAG/ER scientists and our colleagues. Material on internal (password-protected) pages is not yet ready for presentation on the web:
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