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Mars Valles Marineris Hemisphere Viking Orbiter Image Mosaic (500 x 500, 50 kilobytes)

The USGS Astrogeology Research Program participates in all phases of flight mission support through providing scientific input for mission planning, creating precise planetary images and maps, and supplying landing site maps and characterization.

A few of the recent, ongoing, and upcoming space missions in which we were, are, or will be involved include:

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
• Mars Exploration Rover
• Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan,
• Mars Pathfinder,
• Clementine,
• Voyager,
• Galileo,
• Mars Global Surveyor,
• Mars Odyssey,
• Deep Space-1,
• Lunar Prospector,
• NEAR/Shoemaker (Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous),
• Cassini Saturn mission,
• Magellan,
• Mars Observer, Mars Polar Lander, and Mars Climate Orbiter,
• Various Space Shuttle Imaging Radar missions, and
• A variety of Earth-observing instruments and experiments.

The Astrogeology Research Program is also part of the overall USGS effort to collaborate on geoscience and data-processing programs with other Federal and international agencies on geoscience and remote-sensing projects.

Visit our Missions pages for more information and links to our mission specific projects.

Gusev Crater, Mars Map of potential landing site for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover mission 597 x 540, 189 kilobytes Clementine Lunar Image Mosaic 700 x 383, 82 kilobytes Panoramic View from the Mars Pathfinder Lander 800 x 196, 92 kilobytes

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