NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has been rotated to capture imagery of the Red Planet that would be similar to what an astronaut ...

A NASA spacecraft that has been circling Mars for more than two decades has spotted something it never has before in well over 100,000 orbits of the Red Planet. On a morning horizon in May, the ...

Larry Mantle talks with Dr. Jeff Plaut, Project Scientist for the Mars Odyssey Mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, launched April 7, 2001 and its science ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars is in safe mode after it detected a problem. The Mars Odyssey, which has been circling the red planet since 2001, noticed something odd with one of ...

A new image from a NASA orbiter shows an unusual view of Mars that captures the planet’s horizon complete with clouds. It is similar to the kinds of views of Earth that astronauts get from the ...

Humans have looked at Mars for centuries with lust in their eyes. Over the past six decades or so, they've even reached the place, indirectly, by means of spacecraft. And yet, until now they've never ...

TEMPE, Ariz. – A six-minute rocket firing on September 30 has put NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft on track for a new orbit around the Red Planet. The change, part of a two-year extension for the ...

Dr. Jeffrey Plaut has been named project scientist for NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey mission, succeeding Dr. R. Stephen Saunders who has retired. Plaut had been the deputy project scientist for Odyssey.

A dazzling image taken by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows an unprecedented view of a 12-mile-high volcano poking through clouds at dawn on the Red Planet. Arsia Mons, which dwarfs Earth’s ...

Future mission to Mars should focus on these caverns. The post Scientist Say They’ve Found Caves on Mars That May Contain ...