TEMPE, Ariz. – A six-minute rocket firing on September 30 has put NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft on track for a new orbit around the Red Planet. The change, part of a two-year extension for the ...
NASA's longest-lived Mars robot is about to mark a new milestone on June 30: 100,000 trips around the Red Planet since launching 23 years ago. During that time, the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has been ...
Observations by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft show a global view of Mars in intermediate-energy, or epithermal, neutrons. Soil enriched by hydrogen is indicated by the deep blue colors on the ...
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft appeared to successfully enter orbit late yesterday around the Red Planet, where the space agency suffered back-to-back failures on its previous ...
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft finished an aerobraking process Friday used to tighten its orbit around the Red Planet in preparation for mapping surface minerals and chemicals ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft closed in on Mars on Tuesday on a mission that NASA hoped would mark a comeback after a pair of failures. Odyssey was designed to map minerals and ...