in 1996.

Mission background

History

In October 1984, NASA approved a new mission to Mars, considered high priority by the Solar System Exploration Committee. The original name of the mission was the Mars Geoscience Climatology Orbiter, emphasizing the scientific goals of geology, geophysics and climatology. The Martian orbiter was planned to expand on the information already gathered by the Viking program. Preliminary mission goals expected the probe to provide planetary magnetic

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