Mars Odyssey instrument revived

The Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which began mapping the Red Planet in February, has already recorded some intriguing images and spectra of the Martian surface (SN: 3/9/02, p. 149: Odyssey’s First Look: Craft spies signs of ice at the Martian south pole).

Although its neutron and gamma-ray spectrometers, as well as a device gathering temperature data and infrared images, have functioned according to plan, another detector had proved troublesome.