Nov 18

NASA’s “MAVEN” Mars orbiter launched without a hitch

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NASA’s Mars orbiter MAVEN launched successfully today from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:28PM EST. Once it arrives in orbit around the Red Planet, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN orbiter will gather data about Mars’ upper atmosphere to try and discover how exactly the planet got to be so dry and atmosphere-poor. Earlier probes suggest […]

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