NASA's Mars Odyssey Enters Orbit

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday October 24, 2001 @01:26AM 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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I wonder... by O2n · 2001-10-24 04:56 · Score: 0, Troll

I wonder if this time they'll try to take pictures of the 'artifacts' (like 'The Face') that were conspicously avoided by all the probes after Voyager. I'm not really in the conspiracy theories, but some things seem to go way against the natural odds...