NASA has formed an internal review board to look more in-depth into why NASA's Mars Global Surveyor went silent in November 2006 and recommend any processes or procedures that could increase safety for other spacecraft.
NASA's Mars robotic missions are performing so well, they are being prepared for additional overtime work.
Engineers are striving to restore full communications with NASA's Mars Global Surveyor on the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft's Nov. 7, 1996, launch.
New gullies that did not exist in mid-2002 have appeared on a Martian sand dune.
Photographs from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft released today are the first pictures of any spacecraft orbiting Mars ever taken by another spacecraft orbiting Mars.
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor recently imaged two other spacecraft orbiting Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey and the European Space Agency's Mars Express.
Using an innovative technique to capture sharper images, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spied tracks from Spirit on the surface of Mars.