from Cape Canaveral, Florida, today launched the U.S. space probe MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission). The probe, which enters the orbit of Mars, will explore the upper atmosphere of the planet.
mission is expected to last one year from the entry probe to orbit Mars 22 September 2014 year. Scientists try to answer such the question when Mars, which in the first billion years of its existence was warm and wet, he became cold and dry as it is now. The basic question is whether Mars could ever arise life
is 21 NASA mission to Mars since the 60s, and also the first dedicated to the study of the upper atmosphere the Red Planet.
(KL)
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