NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft completes 1,000th orbit around Red Planet

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CANADA: NASA’s Mars-studying MAVEN spacecraft notched a spaceflight milestone this week — its 1,000th orbit of the Red Planet.
MAVEN (short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) arrived at the Red Planet in September 2014 and began its yearlong study of the Martian atmosphere on Nov. 16. The 1,000th orbit was completed on Monday (April 6), NASA officials said.
“The spacecraft and instruments continue to work well, and we’re building up a picture of the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere, of the processes that control its behavior and of how loss of gas to space occurs,” MAVEN principal investigator Bruce Jakosky, from the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder, said in a statement.