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NASA's Mars Odyssey Enters Orbit

Posted by Hemos on from the get-it-where-it-needed-to-go dept.

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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  1. Cool! by Bob+McCown · · Score: 5, Funny
    That means our cloaking technology was successful against those pesky aliens that have blasted last few probes.

    Onward to planetary colonization!

  2. Wow by the_other_one · · Score: 2, Funny

    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!

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  3. Touching scene in mission control by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Funny

    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. ;-)

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  4. Re:Nah by stubob · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd trade one gravity well for what's behind the curtain.

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