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This animation is a simulation of the solar array deployment that occurred shortly after launch of Mars Global Surveyor. The slight kink in the minus x-axis solar array is representative of the actual deployment complication that occurred in flight. The animation was generated by the JPL Dview software, developed by Dr. Patti M. Koenig of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, running on a Silicon Graphics workstation.