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Mission To Study Mars' Climate Enters Red Planet's Orbit

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This Sunday night, we headed back to Mars: NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft fired its six main engines, slowing down enough so it could be captured by the gravity of the red planet and go into orbit.

MAVEN, which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, is a distinctly un-sexy name for a …Read More

Source: NPR Science – ingested into KQED

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