NEW YORK: NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) probe – the first mission ever devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere – has completed 1,000 orbits around the Red Planet, four-and-a-half months into its one-year primary mission.
MAVEN is in its science mapping orbit and has been taking data since the start of its primary mission on November 16 last year.
“The spacecraft and instruments continue to work well and we are building up a picture of the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere of the processes that control its behaviour and of how loss of gas to space occurs,” said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN’s principal investigator.
The furthest point in the spacecraft’s elliptical orbit has been 6,500 km and the closest 130 km above the Martian surface.
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