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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. The data Odyssey obtains is intended to help answer the question of whether life once 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.

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Mars Odyssey Mission, 2001-Present (8981696958)

PIA24915 - Mars Odyssey Orbiter By the Numbers

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• Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin, Issue 93 - issue published in 2002, English, online

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		2001 Mars Odyssey - mars-odyssey-logo-sm		Commons
commons	image		Mars Odyssey Mission, 2001-Present (8981696958)		Commons
commons	image		PIA24915 - Mars Odyssey Orbiter By the Numbers		Commons
commons	image		2001 Events montage 16-grid version		Commons