NASA’s Newest Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet

NASA’s Newest Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet:

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars’ orbit at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere as never done before. MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the tenuous upper atmosphere of Mars.




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September 22, 2014 at 05:17AM

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