A multi-band camera aboard the the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter recently turned 10 in Martian orbit. The instrument began scientific operations around the Red Planet on February 19, 2002, and has been producing invaluable science ever since. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) can snap photos in both visible ... |
3 March 2012
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After snatching a world record last year, the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has now officially turned 10. The spacecraft was launched back in 2001, and it still supplies a wealth of data about the Red Planet. Odyssey launched on April 7, 2001, from Space Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS... |
9 April 2011
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If the Mars Odyssey orbiter NASA operated around the Red Planet manages to survive until next week – and there are absolutely no reasons to believe that it will not – the spacecraft will become the most extensive mission carried out around our neighboring planet. The record is currently held by the NASA M... |
10 December 2010
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Officials at NASA announce that the long-term Mars Odyssey orbiter, currently flying around the Red Planet, has just received a new project manager, in the person of former United States Air Force Pilot Gaylon McSmith.He has experience flying fighter jets and Continental Airlines passenger planes, and has been a part... |
16 October 2010
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Scientists at the Arizona State University have just brought online the most detailed map of the Martian surface ever produced. Created by combining about 21,000 images obtained by the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter, the map reveals our neighboring planet in infrared wavelengths, providing an excellent learning tool for t... |
24 July 2010
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Scientists at NASA announce that they will be conducting a final attempt to pick up potential radio signals emitted by the presumably-defunct Phoenix Mars Lander. The spacecraft arrived at the Red Planet in 2008, and mission managers lost contact with it two months after it exceeded its initially-planned mission time... |
14 May 2010
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In September 2008, NASA lost contact with its Phoenix Mars Lander robot, a scientific platform deployed at high latitudes on Mars. Its goal was to search for water-ice deposits, and also to collect new data about the weather patterns and phenomena present in its area. Two months after its originally-planned, three-mo... |
14 April 2010
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Scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce the release of the first batch of images that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) snapped at the request of the public. Some time ago, NASA opened channels through which people could select the areas of the Red Planet they wan... |
1 April 2010
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Experts operating the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter say that the first days of the new listening campaign for radio signals sent by the Phoenix lander have yielded no results. The space agency is hopeful that the spacecraft which landed on the Red Planet in 2008 will be able to use its built-in Lazarus mode to reactivate... |
24 February 2010
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Starting today, January 18, the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter around the Red Planet will start listening to possible signals coming in from the Phoenix Mars Lander. Some experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) believe that the station may become active this Martian spring, seeing how most of the winter is behind i... |
18 January 2010
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Officials at NASA are hopeful that they will be able to restore some kind of communications with the Phoenix Mars Lander. The robot was deployed on the surface of the Red Planet in 2008, and managed to exceed its alloted life time. However, unlike the MER components Spirit and Opportunity, it eventually succumbed to ... |
12 January 2010
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Launched way back on April 7th, 2001, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has been circling the Red Planet since October 24th, 2001, and has been providing the American space agency, and humankind in general, with incredible amounts of data about the composition of the Martian soil, as well as with images of the planet&... |
23 June 2009
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A powerful dust storm, which recently covered the Martian skies, prevented sunlight from reaching Phoenix's hungered solar energy capturing device, and put the lander into a “Hospice Mode.” Technicians on Earth responsible with the mission could do nothing to prevent this from happening, although the... |
6 November 2008
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