MAVEN Solar Wind Ion Analyzer Will Look at Key Player in Mars Atmosphere Loss
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 16, 2014 - This past November, NASA launched the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission in the hope of understanding how and why the planet has been losing its atmosphere over billions of years. One instrument aboard the spacecraft will study a special component of the Martian atmosphere to help solve this mystery. By studying ions, or small electrically charged particles, in and abov ... more
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