Date: 19/06/2017 11:28:47
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1080511
Subject: MAVEN's top 10 discoveries at Mars

MAVEN’s top 10 discoveries at Mars

On June 17, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) will celebrate 1,000 Earth days in orbit around the Red Planet. Since its launch in November 2013 and its orbit insertion in September 2014, MAVEN has been exploring the upper atmosphere of Mars. MAVEN is bringing insight to how the sun stripped Mars of most of its atmosphere, turning a planet once possibly habitable to microbial life into a barren desert world.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-maven-discoveries-mars.html#jCp

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Date: 19/06/2017 11:52:04
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1080520
Subject: re: MAVEN's top 10 discoveries at Mars

Very interesting, I never knew the Mars atmosphere would be so complicated.

There must be more discoveries to find in the atmosphere.

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Date: 19/06/2017 11:58:58
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1080522
Subject: re: MAVEN's top 10 discoveries at Mars

I wonder what all the possibilities are are planetary atmospheres.

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Date: 19/06/2017 12:04:06
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1080523
Subject: re: MAVEN's top 10 discoveries at Mars

Yes it’s a very interesting project.
However it’s been got at by journalist who have turned it into one of those click bait sites, like 7 things you didn’t know about futtocks.
Still it makes you want to go to the NASA site which is a good thing.

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Date: 19/06/2017 16:53:40
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1080628
Subject: re: MAVEN's top 10 discoveries at Mars

Very interesting.

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