7 abr 2001 ano - Mars Odyssey is Launched

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2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. 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. It is hoped that the data Odyssey obtains will help answer the question of life on Mars. It is also hoped that this data can create a dataset of numbers of the radiation that future astronauts on Mars might experience.