Mars Orbiter
2001 Mars Odyssey
2001 Mars Odyssey is currently about 280,395,617 kilometres from Earth, or 1.874 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 15.6 minutes out. It is 1.514 astronomical units from the Sun.
The longest-serving spacecraft at another planet, mapping Martian minerals and ice since 2001 and still relaying rover data a quarter century later.
Its neutron spectrometer found the buried water ice that shaped every mission since.
Right now
- Distance from Earth
- 280,395,617 km (1.874 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 226,475,371 km (1.514 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 15.6 minutes
The mission
- Status
- Operational
- Operator
- NASA
- Launched
- 2001
- Operating
- Mars