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Mars Odyssey Completes Aerobraking

Posted by michael on from the excuse-me-sir-do-you-know-how-fast-you-were-going dept.

Cally writes: "Space.com reports that Mars Odyssey has completed aerobraking and is ready to begin its main science mission. As the spacecraft has already produced exciting results before the start of the science mission proper, interesting data on the quantities of water in the Martian crust may be expected soon - not to mention that Odyssey provides another datapoint in the study of Gamma Ray bursts."

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  1. This is all good, but... by cliffy2000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are they sure to be using ONLY metric or ONLY US measurements? 'cause all this aerobraking stuff sounds nice and dandy, but if they're mistakenly using inches instead of cm in one measurement when computing the trajectory, this thing's going straight past the planet...