There’s a little spot on Mars, fairly close to the equator, that a few Phoenix kids know better than their own back yards. Ten students from Madison No. 1 Elementary School scoured an 11- by 34-mile patch of the Red Planet for signs of water. But they didn’t use just any old picture of Mars for their research. They studied an image shot especially for them by a camera on NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
January 26th, 2004
Russian Gauge Discovered Water On Mars 22 Months Ago, Says Academy Expert RIA Novosti
The HAND, a gauge of Russian design and manufacture at the USA’s Mars Odysseus station, discovered water ice on Mars back in March 2002, expert Igor Mitrofanov said to Novosti. Laboratory head at the Space Research Institute under the Russian Academy of Sciences, he led HAND design and a related experiment. Neutron flows from Mars have been mapped by now. The available global maps have a resolving power of 200 to 300 kilometres. Neutron flows allow to spot water at great distance, explained our informant.
January 11th, 2004
Anniversary Party for Odyssey at Mars
As we celebrate Spirit’s success, another of our robotic friends is celebrating an anniversary of sorts. Last week, NASA
November 28th, 2003
Flare damages Mars Odyssey probe
The US space agency says one of the instruments on its Mars Odyssey craft has been shut down by a solar flare. The instrument, designed to assess the hazards humans would face if they ever went to the planet, has not worked since a solar storm on 28 October.
November 27th, 2003
NASA: Solar storm shut down Mars Odyssey tool
Intense solar activity last month shut down a radiation-measuring instrument aboard NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter and controllers have been unable to put it back in operation, NASA said Wednesday. The instrument was designed to collect data for evaluating the risks future Mars-bound astronauts would face from space radiation.
November 26th, 2003
Solar activity damaged Mars probe
Intense solar activity last month shut down a radiation-measuring instrument aboard NASA
November 26th, 2003
Mars Odyssey Mission Status
The martian radiation environment experiment on NASA
October 7th, 2003
An Odyssey Of Martian Science
NASA’s Mars Odyssey team has released another significant installment of science data for the public and science community to review and analyze. “The three instrument suites onboard Odyssey continue to produce excellent data,” said Jeffrey Plaut, Project Scientist for the mission.
September 21st, 2003
Utah teens working on Mars rover experiment The Salt Lake Tribune
High school students in computer graphics courses at Mountainland Applied Technology College are helping a NASA mission to Mars. “I’m excited but a little nervous,” said Shaun Watson, 17, a Provo High School senior. “It’s going to be so big and everyone’s going to be relying on us.” Students in two MATC multimedia courses will serve as one of 54 Mars Exploration Student Data Teams, assisting NASA as two rovers launched last summer land on the red planet in January and begin exploring.
June 6th, 2003
Odyssey’s wet/dry findings confusing, Mars experts say Florida Today
Mars was once wet. Or was it dry? Different minerals tell different stories of the planet’s aquatic history. And those contradictions are among the results published in the journal Science today based on the observations of the Odyssey spacecraft. NASA’s Mars orbiter was launched in 2001 from Cape Canaveral. During its studies, Odyssey spotted the minerals hematite and olivine at different spots on Mars. One forms in the presence of water. The other quickly weathers away in water. There’s the dilemma.