NASA decides on Mars aero-braking
NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have agreed a strategy for placing the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) into its operational orbit, using an aerobraking technique which it is hoped will not further damage one of the craft's solar panels, which did not fully extend after launch in November 1996.
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