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2001 Mars Odyssey

United States spacecraft
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Dave Dooling
Education and Public Outreach Officer, National Solar Observatory, Sacramento Peak, New Mexico. Coauthor of Engineering Tomorrow.
Dave Dooling
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2001 Mars Odyssey, U.S. spacecraft that studied Mars from orbit and served as a communication relay for the Mars Exploration Rovers and Phoenix. The 2001 Mars Odyssey was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on April 7, 2001, and was named after the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). On October 23, 2001, Mars Odyssey entered Mars orbit, where it spent the next several weeks using the Martian atmosphere as a brake to reshape...

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