This view of Western candor Chasma on Mars was created in 2001 with data from the Mars Odyssey. Credit: NASA/JPL / Arizona State University, R. Luk2001 Odyssey in space in fact! On this day in the year 2001 the probe Mars Odyssey in the life created and now, 3,333 days later the robot probe is still going strong. Sent in orbit around the red planet Mars Odyssey over has collected 130,000 images and also details of Mars climate, geology and Mineralogy at Earth. In December, broke for the longest Mars Odyssey spacecraft at Mars, besting the Mars Global Surveyor, which operated in the orbit of Mars from 1997 to 2006.
An artistic impression of the orbiter to Mars Odyssey. . Image: NASAMeasurements of Odyssey enabled scientists have create maps of minerals and chemical elements and regions with buried identify water ice. Images that have the surface temperature measuring spectacular views of Mars topography made available.
Early in the mission, Odyssey, determined that radiation in low Mars orbit twice, in the low Earth orbit. This is an essential part of the information for any human exploration because of their possible effects on the health - Odyssey important support for ongoing exploration of the planet Mars by relaying the UHF antenna supplied data from the Mars Rover on the Earth of the probe.
Odyssey support the landing of 2012 of the Mars science laboratory and surface operations of the mission. Mars Science Laboratory, curiosity aka, will examine whether its landing site for microbial life and preserve evidence over whether life was has had favourable environmental conditions. The Rover is the largest, most modern instruments for scientific studies that ever sent perform on the Martian surface.
Mars Odyssey carries three main science instruments: the gamma ray Spectrometer (GRS), THEMIS (thermal emission imaging system) and the Mars radiation environment experiment (MARIE).
More info: Mars Odyssey site, THEMIS Web site (tons of large images)
Tagged as: 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars, missions
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