That’s just what happened to NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft which is currently in its third year of orbit around Mars. NASA confirmed this week that it was forced to perform an unplanned maneuver ...
BOULDER — The Colorado-led MAVEN mission cleared the most dangerous hurdle of its life cycle Monday when it successfully left Earth and began its spaceflight to Mars. The NASA-funded program ...
Recent findings, aided by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, are ...
An curved arrow pointing right. NASA and its team behind the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft have found hard evidence of what turned Mars into a cold desert wasteland.
The MAVEN mission also leads an early warning system that lets other Mars spacecraft teams know when radiation levels begin to rise. The heads-up enables missions to turn off instruments that ...
Getting from Earth to space isn’t just about speed—it’s about planning the right trajectory. The Moon, our closest neighbor, ...
His recent projects include: the design of assimilation schemes for specifying the space environment using global circulation and empirical atmospheric models; Mars upper atmosphere research utilizing ...
On Monday, the rocket will bring into the outer space the satellite MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission), which will head for the Red Planet. Contrary to Russian launches ...