text: After the surveyor srrived at the plant on September 1997 ,18 years after the program ended. NASA said"We felt this was important to taxpayers" explained Jim Garvin. On April 5th, 1998 when the Global Surveyor flew over cydonia. Michael Malin and his Mars Orbiter Camera team snapped a picture. This picture was 10 times as better as the original and shows a natural land form.