News tagged with mars odyssey

Mars Orbiter's Computer Reboots Successfully

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 12, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands today to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's ...

Mars Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby

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Dec 01, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's ...

Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground

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Jun 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late ...

Mars and Earth Activities Aim to Get Spirit Rolling Again

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May 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's rover project team is using the Spirit rover and other spacecraft at Mars to begin developing the best maneuvers for extracting Spirit from the soft Martian ground where it has become ...

Scientists monitor developing Mars dust storm

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Apr 20, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

(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 that has ...

Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm Season

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Apr 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.

Odyssey Flight Team to Check Status of Backup System

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Mar 04, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

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

Mars Odyssey Shifting Orbit for Extended Mission

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Oct 10, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The longest-serving of six spacecraft now studying Mars is up to new tricks for a third two-year extension of its mission to examine the most Earthlike of known foreign planets.