NASA’s Mars Mission Set For Launch

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MAVENNASA’s next mission called MAVEN is ready for launch on Monday to discover more about Earths neighbor Mars. Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft will need a clear route which is free of orbiting space debris before NASA engineers can allow the launch which is scheduled on November 18th at 1:28 p.m. in the afternoon. The spacecraft has been rolled out towards the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

‘You know, Mars is our closest neighbor in the solar system and we were made at the same time, out of the same stuff, but we’re very different places,’ said the NASA investigator  and one of the lead researchers in the mission to Mars, Dr. Pamela Conrad, ‘we really try to understand as much as we can about Mars because not only does it teach us about our own past and possible future , but it also tells us something about how unique Earth may or may not be.’

After the launch, the spacecraft is to begin a ten month journey to Mars and is scheduled to start orbiting it on the 22nd of September, 2014. The space agency will try to find more information on why the Red Planet, which was once a wet world with the existence of water,  has now become a dry desert. The MAVEN will study the planets high atmosphere, air pressure and solar winds. The spacecraft MAVEN holds eight scientific instruments which will be used to measure the Martian upper atmosphere. It will dip low to almost 78 miles above Mars for atmospheric sampling whereas its orbit will stretch 3,864 miles.  

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