On this day in space! Nov. 7, 1992: NASA launches Mars Global Surveyor, its 1st Mars mission in 20 years at the time, to map the Red Planet like never before
On Nov. 7, 1996, NASA launched its Mars Global Surveyor mission. This was the first mission NASA sent to Mars in almost 20 years! The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was an orbiter. It transmitted data from NASA’s Mars rovers Sojourner , Spirit and Opportunity back to Earth. The spacecraft also did a lot of itsContinue Reading











