Explore: Viking Orbiter

investigations. Each orbiter, based on the earlier Mariner 9 spacecraft, was an octagon approximately 2.5 m (8.2 ft) across. The fully fueled orbiter-lander pair

The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking

Mars, the orbiter began returning global images of Mars about five days before orbit insertion. The Viking 1 Orbiter was inserted into Mars orbit on June

to reduce the number to five distinct images. The Mission to Mars: Viking Orbiter Images of Mars CD-ROM set image numbers for these are: 035A72 (VO-1010)

megt90n000eb.lbl Olympus Mons, Arsia Mons, Alba Patera: Viking Orbiter Views of Mars by the Viking Orbiter Imaging Team. Ascraeus Mons: Malin Space Science Systems

Ingo; et al. (2017). ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter provides atmospheric data during Aerobraking into its final orbit. 49th Annual Division for Planetary Sciences

quadrangle and was taken by Viking Orbiter. Great amounts of water were required to carry out the erosion shown in this Viking image of a small part of Maja

also appears in the same scene during the film adaptation. Viking Orbiter 1 mosaic Another Viking 1 mosaic East side of Galle crater, as seen by CTX camera

right. Image is located in Lunae Palus quadrangle and was taken by Viking Orbiter. Area around Northern Kasei Valles, showing relationships among Kasei

orbit, functional or not, Mars orbiters have been predicted to remain in orbit for a certain amount of time. Viking 1 orbiter, likely to be in orbit as