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Mars mission set for launch
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.
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