By: Camille M. Carlisle | March 24, 2015 NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has detected dust high in Mars’s atmosphere and auroras across the planet’s northern hemisphere. The bat-winged MAVEN spacecraft has now been in orbit for six months, dipping in and out of the Red Planet’s atmosphere in a looping orbit that slowly shifts around the …
Oppositions between Earth and Mars happen about every 26 months because the planets are relatively close to one another. NASA and other agencies often take advantage of these close approaches to send spacecraft that way. A recent example is NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution probe (MAVEN), which launched in November 2013 and will arrive …
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