Mars Surveyor

Mars Surveyor may refer to various NASA Mars probes:

  • Mars Surveyor 1998, where NASA lost both probes:
    • Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter), and
    • Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander)
  • Mars Surveyor 2001, of which there were also to be two probes:
    • 2001 Mars Odyssey (formerly Mars Surveyor 2001 Orbiter), currently orbiting Mars, and
    • Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander, cancelled in May 2000


Famous quotes containing the word mars:

    “The sword’s a cross; thereon He died:
    On breast of Mars the goddess sighed.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)