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NASA's Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground
06.22.09 -- NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late afternoon.
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Mission News
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NASA's Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground
NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit.
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Odyssey Spacecraft Reboots Successfully
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands today to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's last reboot.
Mission Features
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Clues from Mars Odyssey Support Oceans Theory →
11.17.08 - Mapping of potassium, thorium and iron concentrations on Mars provides evidence for a controversial idea that oceans covered about a third of ancient Mars.
Image Gallery
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Chloride Salt Deposit in Southern Highlands of Mars
Bright blue marks a deposit of chloride (salt) minerals in the southern highlands of Mars in this false-color image, which highlights mineral composition differences.
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Bright Exposures of Chloride Salt on Southern Mars
This image provides higher-resolution views of a site where another observation indicates the presence of chloride salt deposits.
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Temperature Behavior of Possible Cave Skylight on Mars
This image shows a possible cave skylight informally called "Annie," which has a diameter about double the length of a football field.
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Seven Possible Cave Skylights on Mars
Seven very dark holes on the north slope of a Martian volcano have been proposed as possible cave skylights.