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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."
Onward to planetary colonization!
In the picture on the main web site the spacecraft looks very much like the main part of it is a Furby. Now that's a hack!
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
shouldn't that be break ?
Mars probably isn't that close to a central office.
That's why I'm canceling my subscription to the Deep Space Network - the 16 minute ping times & resultant lag makes plying Quake3 with the Aliens impossible.
I was watching the mission control footage, when the satellite came out of Mars' shadow, two mission control geeks went to high five each other, and missed. That's NASA for you: nerding it old school. ;-)
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I'd trade one gravity well for what's behind the curtain.
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