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For Release: Sept. 20, 1999
Media Advisory m99-192a


Summary:

MARS CLIMATE ORBITER TO ARRIVE AT MARS THIS WEEK


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MARS CLIMATE ORBITER TO ARRIVE AT MARS THIS WEEK

NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter, the first interplanetary weather 
satellite, arrives at Mars at 5:01 a.m. EDT (2:01 a.m. PDT) on 
Thursday, Sept. 23.

In addition to observing the seasonal climate and daily 
weather of Mars, the orbiter will serve as a communications relay 
for the Mars Polar Lander, due to set down on layered terrain near 
the south pole of the red planet on Dec. 3, 1999.

NASA TV will carry a live feed from orbiter mission control 
facilities at both the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, 
CA, and Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, CO.  The feed will 
begin at 4:30 a.m. EDT and run through 5:45 a.m. (1:30 a.m. to 
2:45 a.m. PDT).  Animation and video footage related to the 
mission will run on the NASA TV Video File beginning on Tuesday, 
September 21.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Doug Isbell 
202/358-1753.
Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA:  Mary 
Hardin 818/354-5011.

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1999/n99-051.txt 


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