Nasa Maven

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  "Unrecoverable State": NASA Declares Mars Mission Over After Long Research

  Launched in 2013 to study the red planet's atmosphere from orbit, Maven mysteriously fell silent in early December after passing behind Mars

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  NASA’s MAVEN Detects Rare Solar Wind Effect in Mars Atmosphere

  NASA’s MAVEN orbiter has detected the Zwan-Wolf effect on Mars for the first time. The discovery suggests solar wind interactions on unmagnetized worlds are more complex than scientists once believed.

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  NASA Races to Restore Contact With MAVEN Mars Orbiter After Weeks of Silence

  NASA has resumed efforts to reestablish contact with the MAVEN spacecraft after Mars emerged from solar conjunction. Engineers are using the Deep Space Network and studying recovered data from December 6 to determine what caused the communication loss and assess the spacecraft’s condition.

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  MAVEN Reveals How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere and Became a Barren World

  NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of "sputtering"—a powerful atmospheric escape process where solar wind particles blast atoms off Mars. The newly published study confirms that this process played a major role in the Red Planet’s transformation from a once-wet, habitable world to its current barren state. Argon ga...

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  NASA Shares Stunning Ultraviolet Images Of Mars Captured By Maven Spacecraft

  The scientists were able to gain better insight into the red planet's atmosphere by viewing it in ultraviolet wavelengths.

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  NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Marks 4 Years In Mars Orbit With Selfie

  NASA's MAVEN spacecraft released a selfie image of the spacecraft at Mars, celebrating its four years in orbit studying the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet

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  Mars Has Metal In Its Atmosphere, Reveals NASA Probe

  Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, show results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft.

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  NASA Mars Satellite Shifts Course To Avoid Hitting Planet's Moon

  A NASA science satellite orbiting Mars was forced to make a rare evasive manoeuvre to avoid a collision next week with one of the planet's two small moons, the US space agency said on Thursday.

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  Nasa's Maven Sends Stunning, Ultraviolet Photos of Mars

  The images sent by Nasa's Maven mission show the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously invisible behaviour.

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  NASA Spacecraft Finds Mars Behaving Like a Rockstar

  If planets had personalities, Mars would be a rock star, according to preliminary results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft.

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  NASA's MAVEN Probe Completes Deep Dips on Mars

  NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) spacecraft has completed the first of five deep-dip manoeuvers designed to gather measurements closer to the lower end of the Martian upper atmosphere.

• NASA Spacecraft Provides First Look at Upper Mars Atmosphere

  NASA's Maven spacecraft has given scientists their first glimpse of the mysterious upper atmosphere of Mars, which has baffled them for decades.