Page 44 - ShareSpace's Mars Map Teacher's Guide - Sept 2016

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Odyssey

ge. Ask The Mars Odyssey orbiter launched in April
nk they 2001 and arrived at Mars in October of 2001.
mage of? Here is an image of the Mars Odyssey orbiter.
ars Global Again, we see solar panels (what is their
dyssey. purpose?) and a communications antenna (what
is its purpose?). The object at the end of the
boom (left) that looks like a toilet bowl with the
seat up, is an instrument called the Gamma Ray
Spectrometer. This instrument was used to
make the following discovery…