The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Extended Mission Phase began February 1, 2001. The main objectives for the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) during this busy time include:

• continued daily monitoring of martian weather, storms, and polar cap changes;
• use of the high resolution camera to seek changes caused by frost, wind, slope movements, and gully action;
• re-observe geologic features previously seen by MOC by pointing the spacecraft "off-nadir"---toward the feature---to provide "3-D" (stereoscopic) views; and
• obtain pictures of other geologic features of interest, including sites being considered for the two 2003 Mars Exploration Rover landings.

Images covering the 2003 rover sites are released each month. The pictures presented below are examples of some of the other observations made by the MOC during the first three months of the Extended Mission. To view each release, please click on the icons below.

MOC2-280 Dust Storms

MOC2-281 Dust Devil

MOC2-282 "3-D" Dunes

MOC2-283 "Face on Mars"

MOC2-284 Streak Changes

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