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NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
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NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
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Artist's View of Odyssey Detecting Ice
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Artist's View of Odyssey Detecting Ice
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This artist's rendering portrays ice-rich layers in the soils of Mars being detected by instruments aboard NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. Measurements by the gamma ray spectrometer suite of instruments indicate that the upper meter (three feet) of soil contains an ice-rich zone with an ice abundance of 20 to 50 percent by mass. The ice-rich areas surround the polar regions of Mars, down to latitudes of about 60 degrees, in both the north and the south. The instruments detect the signature of hydrogen, indicating water ice, to a depth of about one meter (three feet). It is not known whether or how deep the ice-rich zone continues below that depth. The view of the spacecraft in this artist's rendering is not to scale, as the observations are obtained from an orbital altitude of 400 kilometers (250 miles).
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, 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. The gamma-ray spectrometer was provided by the University of Arizona in collaboration with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, which provided the high-energy neutron detector, and the Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico, which provided the neutron spectrometer. 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, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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This artist's rendering portrays ice-rich layers in the soils of Mars being detected by instruments aboard NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft. Measurements by the gamma ray spectrometer suite of instruments indicate that the upper meter (three feet) of soil contains an ice-rich zone with an ice abundance of 20 to 50 percent by mass. The ice-rich areas surround the polar regions of Mars, down to latitudes of about 60 degrees, in both the north and the south. The instruments detect the signature of hydrogen, indicating water ice, to a depth of about one meter (three feet). It is not known whether or how deep the ice-rich zone continues below that depth. The view of the spacecraft in this artist's rendering is not to scale, as the observations are obtained from an orbital altitude of 400 kilometers (250 miles).
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, 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. The gamma-ray spectrometer was provided by the University of Arizona in collaboration with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, which provided the high-energy neutron detector, and the Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico, which provided the neutron spectrometer. 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, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Original Caption Released with Image
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Addition Date:
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2002-05-28
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2002-05-28
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Image Credit:
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NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Los Alamos National Laboratories
Image_Credit
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Los Alamos National Laboratories
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Produced By:
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University of Arizona
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University of Arizona
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Mission:
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2001 Mars Odyssey
Mission
2001 Mars Odyssey
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Spacecraft:
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2001 Mars Odyssey
Spacecraft
2001 Mars Odyssey
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Mars
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Mars
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Sol (our sun)
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Sol (our sun)
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Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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Product Size:
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5300 samples x 6450 lines
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5300 samples x 6450 lines
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Sun
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Sun
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Polar
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Polar
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Spectrometer
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Spectrometer
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Mars
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Mars
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2001 Mars Odyssey
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2001 Mars Odyssey
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Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Denver
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Mars
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Mars
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Arizona
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Arizona
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California
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California
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Washington
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Washington
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New Mexico
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New Mexico
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D.C.
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Johnson Space Center (JSC)
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Johnson Space Center (JSC)
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Image #:
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PIA03804
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SPD-PHOTJ-PIA03804
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