Science and Exploration

This Week at NASA: Maven Update

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
November 17, 2013
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This Week at NASA: Maven Update
This Week at NASA: Maven Update
NASA

The MAVEN spacecraft is the latest NASA probe designed to help piece together a complete picture of The Red Planet’s past.
MAVEN’s piece of the puzzle — to understand what happened to Mars’ upper atmosphere. Following its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station — MAVEN is scheduled to reach Mars in September 2014. Also, Getting to deep space, A stunning new view of Saturn, Commercial success, Earth science satellite, Antarctica campaign, Tail wing technology and more.

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