Mars Odyssey - Overview of Early Science Mission

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May 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agusm.p31a..02s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #P31A-02

Physics

5415 Erosion And Weathering, 5462 Polar Regions, 5464 Remote Sensing, 5470 Surface Materials And Properties, 6225 Mars

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This paper will provide an overview of early science from the Odyssey Mission. The 2001 Mars Odyssey Mission was launched from Cape Canaveral on April 7, 2001 and was inserted into Mars orbit on September 23. The science objectives are to 1) Globally map the elemental composition of the surface. 2) Acquire high spatial and spectral resolution maps of surface mineralogy. 3) Determine abundance of hydrogen in the shallow subsurface. 4) Provide information on the morphology of the martian surface. 5) Characterize specific aspects of the Martian near-space radiation environment. The science payload is the Gamma Ray Spectrometer instrument suite (Gamma sensor, Neutron Spectrometer, High Energy Neutron Detector), the thermal imaging system, THEMIS, with its thermal (100m, 10 filter) and vis (18m, 5 filter) imaging, and the Martian Environmental Radiation Experiment, MARIE. The primary mission is 1 Mars Year. We expect at least 3-4 Earth years of extended science mission Up to 7 years extended mission is possible if all contingency propellant is available. All mapping instruments are performing well. Marie stopped responding in August, 2001 and has not been recovered. The start of THEMIS mapping was February 19, 2002. THEMIS acquires images on each 2-hour orbit. The early mapping concentrates on supporting landing site selection for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers. Early targets also include Viking 1, 2, & Pathfinder Sites, Valles Marineris layered deposits, southern hemisphere young gullies, putative shorelines, polar caps, and sites of general interest such as outflow channels, dunes, Arsia, Pavonis, Ascraeus, Olympus, Elysium Mons, polar dunes, and Elysium flows.

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