Abstract is: 2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 million. Its mission is to use spectrometers and a thermal imager to detect evidence of past or present water and ice, as well as study the planet's geology and radiation environment. It is hoped that the data Odyssey obtains will help answer the question of whether life existed on Mars and create a risk-assessment of the radiation that future astronauts on Mars might experience. It also acts as a relay for communications between the Curiosity rover, and previously the Mars Exploration Rovers and Phoenix lander, to Earth. The mission was named as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke, evoking the name of his and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Odyssey was launched April 7, 2001, on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and reached Mars orbit on October 24, 2001, at 02:30 UTC (October 23, 19:30 PDT, 22:30 EDT). On May 28, 2002 (sol 210), NASA reported that Odyssey's GRS instrument had detected large amounts of hydrogen, a sign that there must be ice lying within a meter of the planet's surface, and proceeded to map the distribution of water below the shallow surface. The orbiter also discovered vast deposits of bulk water ice near the surface of equatorial regions. By December 15, 2010, it broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at Mars, with 3,340 days of operation. Odyssey has also served as the primary means of communications for NASA's Mars surface explorers in the past decade, up to the Curiosity rover. It currently holds the record for the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, ahead of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (served 14 years) and the Mars Express (serving over 17 years), at 21 years, 1 month and 13 days. As of October 2019 it is in a polar orbit around Mars with a semi-major axis of about 3,800 km or 2,400 miles. It has enough propellant to function until 2025.
space probe | Q26529 |
P247 | COSPAR ID | 2001-013A |
P10565 | Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID | 507434 |
P1417 | Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID | topic/Mars-Odyssey |
P646 | Freebase ID | /m/04shm |
P11021 | Glossary of Astronomical Terms ID | 16 |
P12385 | Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID | mars-odissey |
P1296 | Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme) | 0261134 |
P2924 | Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (old version) | 4076189 |
P10668 | HuijiWiki article ID | sat:奥德赛轨道器 |
P8913 | NSSDCA ID | 2001-013A |
P856 | official website | http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/ |
P377 | SCN | 26734 |
P4342 | Store norske leksikon ID | 2001_Mars_Odyssey |
P4839 | Wolfram Language entity code | Entity["Satellite", "26734"] |
P2243 | apoapsis | 500 | |
P495 | country of origin | United States of America | Q30 |
P1079 | launch contractor | McDonnell Douglas | Q201815 |
P176 | manufacturer | Lockheed Martin | Q7240 |
P2067 | mass | 376.3 | |
758 | |||
P2109 | nominal power capacity | 750 | |
P137 | operator | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Q23548 |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Q189325 | ||
P1096 | orbital eccentricity | 0.0115 | |
P2045 | orbital inclination | 93.2 | |
P2146 | orbital period | 117.84 | |
P397 | parent astronomical body | Mars | Q111 |
P2244 | periapsis | 201 | |
P2791 | power consumed | 750 | |
P2233 | semi-major axis of an orbit | 2352 | |
3785 | |||
P793 | significant event | rocket launch | Q797476 |
P375 | space launch vehicle | Delta II | Q49538 |
P1427 | start point | Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17 | Q1034324 |
P910 | topic's main category | Category:2001 Mars Odyssey | Q8184312 |
P619 | UTC date of spacecraft launch | 2001-04-07 |
FileName: Mars Odyssey spacecraft model.png
Description: Artist's rendering, from NASA, of the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, in mission configuration. The Mars Odyssey mission, executed from orbit of the planet Mars, focused on astrobiology studies from orbit, and consistent monitoring of the planet's environment.
Artist: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
License: Public domain
Q8184312 | Category:2001 Mars Odyssey | category's main topic | P301 |
Q111 | Mars | child astronomical body | P398 |
Q99627900 | Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 93 | main subject | P921 |
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