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Mars, the most habitable of our sister planets, holds a special place in our imaginations and in our space exploration program. Fully half of NASA's planetary exploration effort is now devoted to Mars. Key questions include: Has Mars ever harbored life? Is there life on Mars now? Will humans be able to survive on the Martian surface? Answers to these questions lie in determining the present location of water on Mars and its likely inventory in the past, and in determining the present radiation environment of Mars. The 2001 Mars Odyssey Mission contributes greatly these answers by detecting near-surface water through measurements of neutron flux, from the detection of carbonates, and the quantification of its radiation environment. This book captures the objectives, the design of the mission and the details of the instruments carried to Mars. It should be of interest to every scientist interested in participating in the on-going exploration of Mars from graduate students to senior scientists as it provides the background information essential to interpret the many exciting results now appearing from the mission.
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"Mars, the most habitable of our sister planets, holds a special place in our imaginations and in our space exploration program. Fully half of NASA’s planetary exploration effort is now devoted to Mars. Key questions include: Has Mars ever harbored life? Is there life on Mars now? Will humans be able to survive the martian surface? Answers to these questions lie in determining the present location of water on Mars and its likely inventory in the past, and in determining the present radiation environment of Mars. This book captures the objectives, the design of the 2001 Mars Odyssey Mission and the details of the instruments carried to Mars".
(LUNAR AND PLANETARY INFORMATION BULLETIN)
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Book Title: 2001 Mars Odyssey
Editors: Christopher T. Russell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48600-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1696-7Published: 30 April 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-6958-3Published: 11 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48600-5Published: 31 March 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 159
Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Reprinted from SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS, 110:1-2
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Planetology