Mars Surveyor may refer to various NASA Mars probes:
- Mars Surveyor 1998, where NASA lost both probes:
- Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter), and
- Mars Polar Lander (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Lander)
- Mars Surveyor 2001, of which there were also to be two probes:
- 2001 Mars Odyssey (formerly Mars Surveyor 2001 Orbiter), currently orbiting Mars, and
- Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander, cancelled in May 2000
Famous quotes containing the word mars:
“Human beings will be happier—not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)