NASA's Mars Odyssey Enters Orbit

maddmike writes "Nasa's Mars explorer Odyssey is scheduled to brake and orbit about Mars today at 7:30PDT. Among the mission's objectives are to understand Mars' climate and geological history and to search for signs of life sustaining environments including water. Main web site is at the JPL website." Update: 10/24 13:12 GMT by T : The BrownFury writes cites a Space.com summary which says "The Mars Odyssey spacecraft appears to have succeeded Tuesday night in one of the most tricky and critical parts of its missions by slipping into orbit around the Red Planet."

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I hope they know what they are doing

[TheMMaster]

understand Mars' climate and geological history and to search for signs of life sustaining environments including water.
let's hope they don't mix up degrees Celcius and Fahrenheit and Liter and gallon..... else these "colonists" are in for a BIG surprise ;-)

NASA gets it right finally

[Amon CMB]

Amazing what NASA can do when they don't use the English system of measurement!