Sentences with phrase «odyssey orbiting spacecraft»
That is not a surprise, given the map of hydrogen (a stand - in for water) generated by an instrument on the Mars Odyssey orbiting spacecraft and the presence of small amounts of water in younger Martian meteorites, notes Harry McSween at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
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Farmer helped select the landing site for Mars Pathfinder and thinks that the Mars Surveyor and Mars Odyssey spacecraft now in orbit have begun the job of meeting the first - stage requirements of finding potential ancient hydrothermal systems — for example, the Mars hematite site at Terra Meridiani.
In normal operating mode, Odyssey keeps the THEMIS camera pointed straight down as the spacecraft orbits Mars.
The chemical fingerprints of a long - vanished ocean on Mars may have been found in data from the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft, boosting hopes that the planet could once have supported life.
Venkat has found bugs in the spacecraft - assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; on hardware and in drinking water from the International Space Station; in circuit boards destined for an upcoming mission to Europa; and on the metal surface of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since October 2001.
Twenty - five years ago, next week, shuttle mission STS - 34 and the crew of Atlantis rocketed into orbit to launch NASA's Galileo spacecraft on a lengthy odyssey to Jupiter.
NASA created the map by tracking small fluctuations in the orbits of three spacecraft over 16 years using the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The new map of Mars» gravity was generated by scientists using data from three NASA spacecraft — the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — which mapped the Red Planet from orbit.
An artist's concept of NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft orbiting Mars.
The Mars Odyssey spacecraft journeyed for more than six months before placing itself in orbit around the red planet in October, 2001.