Mars Odyssey

Artists impression of the Mars Odyssey orbiter

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"2001 Mars Odyssey is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. The opportunity to go to Mars comes around every 26 months, when the alignment of Earth and Mars in their orbits around the sun allows spacecraft to travel between the two planets with the least amount of energy. 2001 Mars Odyssey launched on April 7, 2001, and arrived at Mars on October 24, 2001, 0230 Universal Time (October 23, 7:30 pm PDT/ 10:30 EDT)." - Mission website.

Wow 3hrs! New & different? Glad you reermbemed it was 200 and made an effort; as you know, 200 came and went on TFL without me really realising!Looking forward to whatever it is I'm not going to look and spoil the surprise