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On November 7, 1996, NASA launched its Mars Global Surveyor mission. Space History Archives👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/SkE22C This was the first mission NASA sent to Mars in almost 20 years. The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was an orbiter. It transmitted data from NASA's Mars rovers Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity back to Earth. The spacecraft also did a lot of its own science. It found surface channels on Mars that appeared to have been created by running water. It looked at the sout