Humanist
11-13-2013, 07:49 PM
NATURE NEWS
Mars mission set for launch (http://www.nature.com/news/mars-mission-set-for-launch-1.14150?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20131114)
NASA’s MAVEN orbiter aims to unravel the mystery of the red planet’s missing atmosphere.
Alexandra Witze
12 November 2013
The US$485-million spacecraft is now at Florida’s Cape Canaveral, waiting for a 28-day launch window that opens on 18 November. If MAVEN successfully reaches Mars ten months later, it will study how gases in the outer atmosphere escape into space — and how that rate of loss has changed over the past few billion years.
Mars mission set for launch (http://www.nature.com/news/mars-mission-set-for-launch-1.14150?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20131114)
NASA’s MAVEN orbiter aims to unravel the mystery of the red planet’s missing atmosphere.
Alexandra Witze
12 November 2013
The US$485-million spacecraft is now at Florida’s Cape Canaveral, waiting for a 28-day launch window that opens on 18 November. If MAVEN successfully reaches Mars ten months later, it will study how gases in the outer atmosphere escape into space — and how that rate of loss has changed over the past few billion years.