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An Odyssey of Exploration
- March 08, 2005
In this 11-minute movie, the Odyssey orbiter team shares their discoveries and long-term plans to unravel the mysteries of Mars. During Odyssey's successful primary mission, the team found a "buried treasure" of water ice. On Earth, water is a key ingredient for life, and finding the new abundance of ice increases the chances that Mars was once a habitat for life and could support human astronauts in the future. Odyssey continues to create the highest resolution global image maps ever acquired at Mars, as well as maps of what chemical elements are present on the surface of the red planet. Odyssey also analyzes health risks for future human explorers, enables students to take their own pictures of Mars, and relays over 95% of the data from the Mars rovers.
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