NASA's longest serving Martian orbiter, the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, has just achieved a historic milestone by completing its 60,000th orbit of the Red Planet. As a cornerstone of the agency's Mars Exploration Program, Odyssey has travelled an impressive 888 million miles (1.43 billion km) since arriving in orbit on October 24, 2001. Over the course of its operational life, the spacecraft has transformed how we see Mars, providing us with 208,240 images from its Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) alone.
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