The Mars Odyssey

Launch Date

Apr 7, 2001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_OdysseyThe Mars Odyssey was launched on April 7, 2001

The Mars Odyssey gets to Mars

Oct 24, 2001

href='http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey' The Mars Odyssey reached Mars on October 24, 2001.

Starts Its first mission

Feb 19, 2002

The Mars Odyssey started its first science mapping mission on 2/19/02. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/mission/timeline/communicationsrelay/ http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/payload/missions/mars-odyssey/

The Mars Odyssey began its extended mission

Aug 24, 2004

began its extended mission http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/mission/timeline/ image is from
http://www.fourth-millennium.net/mission-artwork/mars-odyssey-themis-instrument.html

Brakes record for longest seRving spacecraft at Mars

Dec 15, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey#Water_on_Mars</a>
http://what-when-how.com/space-science-and-technology/mars/

December 15, 2010 it broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at mars

water found on Mars

Jul 31, 2012

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/spaceprobe.shtml</a>
<a href='http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey#Water_on_Mars' >

July 31, 2008, NASA announced that the Phoenix lander confirmed water on Mars, as predicted in 2002 based on information from the Mars Odyssey.