TES News

February 1996, Volume 5, No. 1


Thermal Emission Spectrometer Project
Mars Global Surveyor Space Flight Facility
Department of Geology, Arizona State University
Box 871404, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1404, U.S.A.

Preparing for the Red Planet: Mars Global Surveyor TES Takes Shape!

In This Issue:

Mars Global Surveyor TES Update: TES is "Buttoned Up" by Greg Mehall
Late Nights with TES Pay Off by Melissa Wenrich
Mars Pathfinder at JPL by Sheri Klug
The People of TES, Part 1 by Tricia Dieck
JOE THE MARTIAN'S CORNER: The Electromagenetic Spectrum by Ken Edgett
Classroom Activity: Edible Mars Spacecraft by Amalia Plummer and Tricia Dieck
Kid-designed Mars T-Shirts by Fran O'Rourke/Hartman
WWW Site for Names on the Planets by Ken Edgett
Recent Mars Reading List

Photo caption (above): Globes of Mars (left) and Earth (center and right) at different scales. Photo by L. Jaramillo, 1995, during a visit to the MGS TES facility at ASU.

Edited by: K.S. Edgett and assisted by K. Mellgren

Original Text: 9 February 1996

Hypertext: 3 March 1996 & 2 September 1996



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