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	Mars Odyssey: Overview
		The opportunity to go to Mars comes around every 26 months, when the alignment of Earth and Mars in their orbits around the sun allows spacecraft to travel between the two planets with the least amount of energy.
		Odyssey recorded the radiation environment in low Mars orbit to determine the radiation-related risk to any future human explorers who may one day go to Mars.
		The name "2001 Mars Odyssey" was selected as a tribute to the vision and spirit of space exploration as embodied in the works of renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.
	mars.jpl.nasa.gov /odyssey/overview (432 words)

	2001 Mars Odyssey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its mission is to use spectrometers and imagers to hunt for evidence of past or present water and volcanic activity on Mars.
		Odyssey was launched April 7, 2001 on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and reached Mars on October 24, 2001, 0230 Universal Time (October 23, 7:30 pm PDT/ 10:30 EDT).
		Mars Odyssey was originally named the Mars Surveyor 2001 Orbiter and was intended to have a companion spacecraft known as Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_Odyssey (534 words)

	2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The 2001 Mars Odyssey is the remaining part of the Mars Surveyor 2001 Project, which originally consisted of two separately launched missions, The Mars Surveyor 2001 Orbiter and the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander.
		The orbiter, renamed the 2001 Mars Odyssey, will nominally orbit Mars for three years, with the objective of conducting a detailed mineralogical analysis of the planet's surface from orbit and measuring the radiation environment.
		The mission has as its primary science goals to gather data to help determine whether the environment on Mars was ever conducive to life, to characterize the climate and geology of Mars, and to study potential radiation hazards to possible future astronaut missions.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/odyssey.htm (605 words)

	2001 Mars Odyssey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The 2001 Mars Odyssey was launched on April 7, 2001, and arrived at Mars on October 24, 2001.
		Odyssey is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet.
		Odyssey's primarily mission is to map the amount and distribution of chemical elements and minerals that make up the Martian surface.
	www.payloadbay.com /misc-530.html (100 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Delta Launch Report \| The 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft
		The shape of 2001 Mars Odyssey is anything but uniform, but its size can most easily be visualized by mentally placing the spacecraft inside of a box.
		Odyssey's metal structure is similar to that used in the construction of high-performance and fighter aircraft.
		Odyssey's telecommunications subsystem is composed of both a radio system operating in the X-band microwave frequency range and a system that operates in the ultra high frequency (UHF) range.
	spaceflightnow.com /mars/odyssey/010405odyssey.html (1577 words)

	2001 Mars Odyssey Set To Find Out What Mars Is Made Of
		NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft Is On Its Way To The Red Planet (April 10, 2001) -- NASA's return to Mars began April 7, 2001 as the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft roared into space onboard a Delta II launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla....
		It's "2001 Mars Odyssey" For Nasa's Next Trip To The Red Planet (October 2, 2000) -- As NASA's next spacecraft to the red planet begins a crucial round of testing in preparations for launch next year, the mission has been given a new name: 2001 Mars Odyssey.
		Mars Odyssey Releases First Data Archive To Scientists (October 4, 2002) -- NASA has released the first set of data taken by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft to the Planetary Data System, which will now make the information available to research scientists through a new online...
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2001/03/010320073839.htm (949 words)

	NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft Poised To Arrive At The Red Planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Mars 2001 Odyssey Spacecraft Arrives For Launch Preparation (January 8, 2001) -- The first major step toward NASA's return of a spacecraft to an orbit around Mars was achieved late Thursday night, Jan. 4, when the Mars Odyssey spacecraft arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space...
		Odyssey Space Probe Reported To Be Healthy And In Orbit Around Mars (October 29, 2001) -- Flight controllers for NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey mission report the spacecraft is in excellent health and is in a looping orbit around Mars of 18 hours and 36 minutes.
		Odyssey was launched April 7 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Other than our Moon, Mars has attracted more spacecraft exploration attempts than any other object in the solar system, and no other planet has proved as daunting to success.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2001/10/011019075242.htm (804 words)

	2001 Mars Odyssey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		NASA Selects name for Next Mars Mission News announcement of NASA's naming of "2001 Mars Odyssey" in homage to a classic 1968 science fiction film.
		Odyssey Probe Blasts Off For Mars Report on the mission's launch and objectives.
		Mars Odyssey Orbiter Mission overview, images, news, and story archive, from Space.com.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-2001_Mars_Odyssey.html (342 words)

	MarsNews.com :: 2001: A Mars Odyssey
		Posted by tourdemars to Mars Odyssey at March 31, 2001 12:00 PM On 7 April, a probe will set out for Mars that could be pivotal in the search for water--and life--on the red planet.
		The 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter will also be attempting to erase memories of the failure of the last two NASA missions to that destination.
		The Odyssey's mission is to map the planet's geology, paying particular attention to the role of water, both past and present.
	www.marsnews.com /archives/2001/03/31/2001_a_mars_odyssey.html (80 words)

	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
		2001 Mars Odyssey is an orbiting spacecraft designed to determine the composition of the planet's surface, to detect water and shallow buried ice, and to study the radiation environment.
		The surface of Mars has long been thought to consist of a mixture of rock, soil and icy material.
		Odyssey will collect images that will be used to identify the minerals present in the soils and rocks on the surface and to study small-scale geologic processes and landing site characteristics.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/current/2001marsodyssey.html (175 words)

	Mars 2001 Odyssey
		A Mars orbiter, launched in April 2001, that is the surviving part of the Mars Surveyor 2001 project.
		Its main goals are to gather data to help determine whether the environment of Mars was ever conducive to life, characterize the climate and geology of Mars, and study potential radiation hazards to future astronaut missions.
		After a seven-month cruise, the spacecraft reached Mars on Oct. 24, 2001, transferred to a 25-hour elliptical orbit, and then used aerobraking over the next 76 days to achieve a two-hour, 400-km-high circular polar orbit.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/Mars2001.html (197 words)

	MarsNews.com :: 2001 Mars Odyssey
		The 2001 Mars Odyssey mission was designed to orbit Mars to study the planet's composition, search for water, and measure solar and cosmic radiation.
		The Mars Odyssey arrived at Mars in October 2001 and achieved a stable mapping orbit in January 2002.
		The probe also carries a Mars Radiation Environment Experiment provided by NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) which tests the space radiation environment and collects data to assist with the planning of future missions sending Human to Mars.
	www.marsnews.com /missions/odyssey (296 words)

	Space Today Online - Exploring the Red Planet - 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter
		Odyssey carries science instruments for acquiring data to improve our understanding of the planet's climate and geologic history, including searching for water and evidence of life-sustaining environments.
		Later, Odyssey would move much closer to Mars and be able to see whether or not there are places on the planet where liquid water may be close to the surface, such as hot springs.
		The interplanetary probe 2001 Mars Odyssey -- formerly known as Mars Surveyor 2001 -- was launched on April 7, 2001.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Mars/MarsExploration/MarsSurveyor2001.html (1304 words)

	2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter
		2001 Mars Odyssey is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet.
		The opportunity to go to Mars comes around every 26 months, when the alignment of Earth and Mars in their orbits around the sun allows spacecraft to travel between the two planets with the least amount of energy.
		The name "2001 Mars Odyssey" was selected as a tribute to the vision and spirit of space exploration as embodied in the works of renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.
	www.amnh.org /rose/mars/odyssey.html (412 words)

	CNN.com - Sci-Tech - Space - NASA poised for 2001 Mars Odyssey - March 19, 2001
		The 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter should launch on April 7 and arrive at Mars on October 20.
		The Mars Global Surveyor, a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 1997, has snapped high-resolution pictures of deep gullies, layered terrain and other features that suggest water flooded the planet billions of years ago and continues to seep to the surface today.
		In addition to the 2001 orbiter and twin 2003 rovers, the agency plans to send a more powerful orbiter in 2005, a long-range mobile laboratory in 2007 and a new line of "scout" missions that could involve scientific balloons or miniature landers.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/TECH/space/03/19/mars.odyssey (635 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Mars Odyssey Works"
		By 2001, Mars would have long been achieved, and we would already be flying manned missions to Jupiter.
		The Mars Odyssey spacecraft journeyed for more than six months before placing itself in orbit around the red planet in October, 2001.
		Mars continues to fascinate us, and NASA continues to move forward in its goal of sending a manned mission there within this century.
	www.howstuffworks.com /mars-odyssey.htm (287 words)

	2001 Mars Odyssee
		2001 Mars Odyssee, named after Arthur C. Clark's novel, '2001: A Space Odyssey,' and previously called Mars Surveyor 2001 orbiter, was successfully launched on April 7, 2001 from Cape Canaveral with a Delta II rocket.
		Now in its mapping orbit, the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft has started to conduct science from orbit, its primary science mission covering the time of February, 2002 through July, 2004 (917 Earth days).
		This Mars orbiter mission is to perform the research originally scheduled for the lost Mars Climate Orbiter (Mars Surveyor 1998 Orbiter), i.e., Mars weather and climate.
	www.seds.org /~spider/spider/Mars/odyssey.html (563 words)

	2001 Mars Odyssey
		Mars Odyssey s'appuie sur trois systèmes différents pour connaître son orientation dans l'espace : un capteur solaire pour localiser le Soleil, une caméra stellaire pour se repérer aux étoiles, et enfin une plate-forme de navigation inertielle.
		Mars Global Surveyor, consiste à effleurer à maintes reprises les hautes couches de l'atmosphère martienne pour modifier les paramètres orbitaux.
		Mars Odyssey jouera ensuite le rôle de relais de transmission pour les futurs atterrisseurs martiens pendant 457 jours terrestres, ce qui porte la durée totale de la mission à 1374 jours (soit deux années martiennes).
	www.nirgal.net /surveyor2001_orbiter.html (3672 words)

	2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft - Mapping the Planet
		NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey mission will map the amount and distribution of chemical elements and minerals that make up the Martian surface and will also study the planet's landforms.
		The Odyssey orbiter will look for hydrogen, most likely in the form of water ice, in the shallow subsurface of Mars.
		Odyssey will also serve as a communications relay for U.S. and international landers arriving at Mars in 2003/2004.
	www.etsimo.uniovi.es /solar/cap/craft/odyssey.htm (170 words)

	NSSDC Master Catalog Display: Spacecraft
		The 2001 Mars Odyssey is the remaining part of the Mars Surveyor 2001 Project, which originally consisted of two separately launched missions, The Mars Surveyor 2001 Orbiter and the Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander.
		The mission has as its primary science goals to gather data to help determine whether the environment on Mars was ever conducive to life, to characterize the climate and geology of Mars, and to study potential radiation hazards to possible future astronaut missions.
		During the cruise to Mars, in August, the MARIE instrument failed to respond during a routine data transfer and was put into hibernation.
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /database/MasterCatalog?sc=2001-014A (799 words)

	ScienCentral: 2001: A Mars Odyssey
		Mars Moisture Mystery - Although the red planet is covered with ancient riverbeds, it now seems to be as dry as a bone.
		The most probable cause was a rupture of the fuel pressurization side of the spacecraft’s propulsion system, resulting in a pressurized leak of both helium gas and liquid fuel under the spacecraft’s thermal blanket.
		Mars Climate Orbiter was supposed to provide detailed information about the dust, water vapor, clouds, and atmospheric temperature on Mars, as well as information about the amount of carbon dioxide that is added and removed from the poles each Martian year.
	www.sciencentral.com /articles/view.php3?article_id=218391546 (656 words)

	2001 Mars Odyssey
		Den del af Odysseys billedsystem, der tager billeder i synligt lys, vil se objekter med en klarhed, som udfylder tomrummet mellem kameraerne på Viking-orbiterne i 1970erne, og de højopløsningsbilleder, vi får fra Mars Global Surveyor i dag.
		Som en virtuel skovl, der graver i overfladen, vil Odysseys gamma ray spectrometer (GRS) tillade forskerne at kigge ned i de øverste få centimeter af Mars' skorpe, for at måle mange grundstoffer, inklusive mængden af brint.
		Når Odysseys primære mission er forbi, vil rumsonden fungere som et kommunikationsrelæ for fremtidige amerikanske og internationale landere, inklusive NASAs Marsudforsknings-rovere, som skal opsendes i 2003.
	www.rumfart.dk /vis.asp?id=149 (952 words)

	Mars, Ho!
		Odyssey was launched April 7, 2001, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
		To enter orbit, Odyssey's propellant tanks -- the size of big beachballs -- must first be pressurized, plumbing lines heated, and the system primed before 262.8 kilograms of propellant is burned in exactly the right direction for 19.7 minutes.
		Odyssey carries a suite of scientific instruments designed to seek out evidence of near-surface water, to probe the planet's radiation environment (vital information for possible future human missions to Mars), and to map interesting minerals on the planet's surface.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2001/ast18oct_1.htm?list136182 (882 words)

	Mars Exploration: Home
		NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano.
		NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is examining several features on Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian history.
		Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA's Mars exploration rovers, the solar-powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission.
	mars.jpl.nasa.gov (519 words)

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