This is the official Mars Global Surveyor patch, and shows the spacecraft above Mars with stars in the background. A cartoon of the spacecraft trajectory can be seen leaving Earth (blue dot) and travelling around the Sun, Venus and Mercury to reach Mars. MGS launched in late 1996.
NASA/JPL
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