Mars Climate Orbiter
Mars Color Imager (MARCI)

• Mars Climate Orbiter was launched on December 11, 1998.
• The spacecraft was lost (and presumed destroyed) during its initial orbit insertion on September 23, 1999.
• The Mars Climate Orbiter was to have monitored the planet for 1 Martian year from March 2000 through at least January 2002.
  
  
• MSSS Connection: MSSS fabricated and operated MARCI. President, Michael C. Malin, was the Principal Investigator.

• MARCI Approach Image of Mars

• MARCI Delivered to Spacecraft (Press Release, 23 February 1998)

• MARS MISSION WEB PAGE at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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