After a long 10 month journey to the red planet, a NASA spacecraft will enter Mars’s orbit on Sunday in order to investigate how the planet lost its water. The spacecraft traveled 422 million miles from Earth and will experience a do-or-die burn of its braking rockets scheduled to start at 9:37 PM EDT/0137 GMT. MAVEN’s (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) thruster burns will hopefully give … [Read more...]
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