NASA: Solar storm shut down Mars Odyssey tool

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Odyssey at November 27, 2003 12:00 PM

Intense solar activity last month shut down a radiation-measuring instrument aboard NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter and controllers have been unable to put it back in operation, NASA said Wednesday. The instrument was designed to collect data for evaluating the risks future Mars-bound astronauts would face from space radiation.