2001 Mars Odyssey
OrbiterOrbiter carrying a thermal imaging camera and a gamma-ray spectrometer on a 6 m boom.
- Launch mass
- 725 kg
- Dry mass
- 376 kg
- Size
- 2.2 m × 2.6 m, span 8.5 m
- Power
- Solar
- Built by
- Lockheed Martin
- Designator
- 2001-013A
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- Launched
- 7 Apr 200115:02:22 UTC
- Active for
- 25 years 7 months
- Destinations
- Mars
NASA's longest-serving Mars orbiter, which mapped the planet's surface chemistry, found vast deposits of buried water ice and has relayed data for every rover since Spirit.
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