ODYSSEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Odyssey mean? 

• ODYSSEY (noun)
  The noun ODYSSEY has 2 senses:

1. a long wandering and eventful journey

2. a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy

  Familiarity information: ODYSSEY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ODYSSEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long wandering and eventful journey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("odyssey" is a kind of...):

journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

epic; epic poem; epos; heroic poem (a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds)

 Context examples 

Verification will come from NASA's Odyssey spacecraft, currently orbiting Mars.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

Data from Odyssey's Gamma Ray Spectrometer, which is tailor-made for mapping water ice deposits, were also useful.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

Jack Wilson, a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, led a team that reprocessed data collected from 2002 to 2009 by the neutron spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)

First, they examined data from the gamma ray spectrometer aboard NASA's Odyssey spacecraft, from which they inferred how much of various radioactive elements would have been present in Mars's crust during the Noachian, and therefore how much radiation would have been available to split water and so produce hydrogen.

(Study suggests Mars hosted life-sustaining habitat for millions of years, Wikinews)

To find ice that astronauts could easily dig up, the study's authors relied on two heat-sensitive instruments: MRO's Mars Climate Sounder and the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera on Mars Odyssey.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

The authors of the new paper make use of data from two of those spacecraft, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Mars Odyssey orbiter, to locate water ice that could potentially be within reach of astronauts on the Red Planet.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)