NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey Team Marks 25 Years with Global Mars Map

Note: Single-source report; awaiting corroboration.

Members of NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter team gathered on April 15, 2026, to celebrate 25 years since the spacecraft's launch on April 7, 2001.

To mark the anniversary, the team unveiled a large global map of Mars made from images captured by the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) infrared camera aboard Odyssey.

The celebration was held at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which manages mission operations.

Both current and former members of the mission team joined in marking a quarter-century of Mars exploration by the orbiter.