Maven Spacecraft

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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 Helps Map Winds in Mars' Upper Atmosphere for First Time

  Using data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, researchers have created the first-ever map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of Mars.

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

  In the selfie, lines are sketched in to show approximately where components of the MAVEN spacecraft are that were not able to be imaged due to the limited motion of the instrument around its support boom.

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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 Orbiter Avoids Collision With Mars Moon Phobos

  In a rare event, NASA's Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft was forced to perform a previously unplanned manoeuvre this week to avoid a head on collision with red planet's lumpy, crater-filled moon Phobos.

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  Spacecraft Reveals How Sun Storms Killed Mars' Atmosphere

  Data from Maven, an unmanned spacecraft that has been circling Mars for the past year, was published in scientific studies.

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  Scientists Crack Mystery of Mars' Missing Atmosphere

  Scientists have documented a solar storm blasting away Mars' atmosphere, an important clue in a long-standing mystery of how a planet that was once like Earth turned into a cold, dry desert, research published on Thursday shows.

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  Nasa's Maven Spacecraft Finds Mars Behaving Like a Rock Star

  Mars was seen to sport a "Mohawk" of escaping atmospheric particles at its poles.

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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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  Mars Missions to Rest as Red Planet Hides Behind Sun

  From June 7 to June 21, NASA's Mars Missions will not beam any new data to the Earth as the Red Planet goes behind the Sun and the spacecraft and rovers take their biennial rest.

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  Nasa's MAVEN Spacecraft Detects Mysterious Dust Cloud on Mars

  "If the dust originates from the atmosphere, this suggests we are missing some fundamental process in the Martian atmosphere."

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  Nasa's MAVEN Probe Completes First Deep Dip Manoeuvre on Mars

  This is the first of five deep-dip manoeuvers designed to gather measurements closer to the lower end of the Martian upper atmosphere.

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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.