Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution also known as MAVEN,is NASA's spacecraft which entered the Mar's orbit at 10:24 pm EDT,Sunday the 21st,after ten long months of travelling through space.It will now begin to study the RED planet's atmosphere in a way that has been never done before.This spacecraft would be the first to do so.

         “As the first orbiter dedicated to studying Mars’ upper atmosphere, MAVEN will greatly improve our understanding of the history of the Martian atmosphere, how the climate has changed over time, and how that has influenced the evolution of the surface and the potential habitability of the planet,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. “It also will better inform a future mission to send humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s".

The insertion about the spacecraft into the orbit was received from MAVEN data observed at the Lockheed Martin operations center in Littleton,Colorado,as well from the tracking dat monitored at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) navigation facility in Pasadena,California.The telemetry and tracking data were received by NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna station in Canberra, Australia.

Source:#NASA

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