Science news articles about 'mars odyssey orbiter'

PASADENA, Calif., March 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it has delayed a scheduled computer rebooting of its Mars Odyssey orbiter.

The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption.

... slow drift in the orbit of NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft that mission controllers started nine ... surface rocks." In another operational change, Odyssey has begun in recent weeks to make observations ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has found evidence of salt deposits. These deposits point to places where water once was abundant and where evidence might exist of possible Martian life from the Red ...

A glitch with the Mars Odyssey orbiter has delayed Phoenix digging for soil samples.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a new dust storm ...

... in freeing Opportunity from Purgatory Dune – are using data from the rover and from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to plan Spirit's escape. Opportunity, for its part, ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands today to shut down and restart, a strategy ... engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's last reboot.

... 's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of "She's talking!" among the ...

ASU has teamed with Google to create a new feature in Google Earth 5.0 that lets members of the public suggest places on Mars to photograph with ASU's THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.