Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Odyssey/Marie
Original Caption Released with Image:
Data from Odyssey's Martian radiation environment experiment show that the radiation dose equivalent at Mars is two to three times greater than that aboard the International Space Station. The differences are primarily due to the magnetic field surrounding the Earth, which provides considerable shielding to astronauts in orbit. Mars lacks a strong magnetic field and is therefore more exposed to the harshest elements of space radiation.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. Investigators at Arizona State University in Tempe, the University of Arizona in Tucson and NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, operate the science instruments. Additional science partners are located at the Russian Aviation and Space Agency and at Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL.
Produced By:
Johnson Space Center
Mission:
2001 Mars Odyssey
Spacecraft:
2001 Mars Odyssey
Target Name:
Mars
Is a satellite of:
Sol (our sun)
Instrument:
Mars Radiation Experiment
Product Size:
907 samples x 621 lines
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Mars
facet_what:
2001 Mars Odyssey
facet_what:
Mars Radiation Experiment
facet_what:
International Space Station (ISS)
facet_where:
Denver
facet_where:
Mars
facet_where:
Arizona
facet_where:
California
facet_where:
Washington
facet_where:
New Mexico
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_where:
Washington, D.C.
facet_where:
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Image #:
PIA03745
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA03745
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Odyssey/Marie