Monday, 22 September 2014

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

MAVEN (Artist's Concept)



NASA's MAVEN spacecraft successfully entered Mars' orbit at 7:24 p.m. PDT (10:24 p.m. EDT) Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere.










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