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Odyssey Team Celebrates on a Global Map of Mars

Description Team members past and present from NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter mission gathered on April 15, 2026, to celebrate 25 years since the spacecraft’s launch, which took place April 7, 2001. For the occasion, the team rolled out a…

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Odyssey Team Celebrates on a Global Map of Mars

A group of several dozen scientists and engineers pose together, standing atop an auditorium-size colorful map of the Martian globe that shows patches of blue, green, red, and yellow.

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Team members past and present from NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter mission gathered on April 15, 2026, to celebrate 25 years since the spacecraft’s launch, which took place April 7, 2001. For the occasion, the team rolled out a giant global map of Mars created using imagery from Odyssey’s THEMIS (Thermal Emission Imaging System) infrared camera. The celebration took place at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which leads the mission.

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