Saturday, November 01, 2003

Mars Orbiter Camera Public Target Request Site -- Introduction:
"If you would like to recommend a picture of Mars, this is the place.

The purpose of this web site is to solicit public and science community suggestions for future high resolution images to be obtained by the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)."

We are looking for excellent suggestions for pictures of areas on Mars that MOC has not previously imaged. Using this web site interface, you will indicate the location of the recommended MOC image, and you will describe, in detail, the purpose of the image. When your request is received, it will be evaluated by the Mars science staff at Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS), then put into a database for future acquisition by MOC. At some time in the future, if the MGS ground track passes over the site you suggested, and there are no pre-existing conflicts with other MOC images, the camera will be commanded to take the picture. Recent images suggested by the public will be posted on the MSSS web site once a month; if the image you suggested is among them, and if you registered using your email address, you will be notified by email.

System requirements:

At this time, the Target Request site only works with Internet Explorer (IE). It was developed and tested with IE 6 / Windows 98 SE and IE 5.2.3 / Mac OS X (10.2.6). It is impractical for us to make it work with every browser on every platform, due to the incompatibility of various browsers.
JavaScript must be enabled.
Use of this site will be much more enjoyable with a broadband connection. Its map images take many minutes to download over a dialup connection.
Screen resolution of 1280 x 1024 or higher is recommended.

http://www.msss.com/plan/intro

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