Скачать или смотреть Update on Nasa's 2001 Mars Odyssey mission

(7 Apr 2001)
1. Various animation of Odyssey
2. Still photograph of Mars
3. WS panelists at press conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Phil Christensen, Arizona State University Geologist "Let me point out first that while we may think that we really know Mars, I like to use the analogy of a dating game. We've dated Mars a bit, Viking got pretty close in our dating game and we then had a few setbacks, our date seemed to leave the table a little bit early and now we've gone back with the Global Surveyor and we've looked at our date carefully and we're getting to know them well. Odyssey will cement our dating relationship so that we can go back to the surface of Mars and learn more about it."
5. Animation of water on Mars
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ed Weiler, head of NASA's space science project "To say that we've got an A plus team would be an understatement and those under them too. We've had checkers checking checkers, independent groups. Going to Mars is a tough job, it is not like going to grand-ma's for the week-end. This mission has to succeed because the earlier two missions did not. I don't know what more we can do."
7. Various of Odyssey

STORYLINE:

NASA will try to snap its losing streak and send another spacecraft to Mars on Saturday after two humiliating failures.

Ed Weiler, head of NASA's space science office, said "there's no question" the dlrs 297 (m)million mission has to succeed.

But he added: "I don't know what more we could do to make a successful Mars mission."

He was speaking at a press conference at Cape Canaveral Friday ahead of the launch.

The Mars Odyssey is scheduled for liftoff aboard a Delta rocket Saturday and expected to reach Mars in late October and slip into orbit around the Red Planet.

For 2 1/2 years, it will study minerals in the rocks and measure chemical elements like hydrogen in a quest for water.

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