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On this day in 1997 – September 11th – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor arrived at Mars.

It was a global mapping mission that formed part of the larger Mars Exploration Program. NASA officially ended the mission in January 2007 following an irreparable communications failure.


Mona Evans
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