The Journey of a thousand mile according to wise men begins with a step,so far,the summation of steps taken by NASA thousand minutes ago has yielded positive result,now that they've arrived on planet mars....could it mean that,in the couple of years to come we'll all be in mars?....only NASA has the answer to that quetion and surely there's going to be something like that!...
In the news coming from NASA,report has it that,it has reached Mars;Taking it drect from NAA,it says,MAVEN satellite, en route to Mars for the last 10 months, finally arrived in orbit around the Red Planet around 10:40pm ET Sunday night. This followed a tense 33-minute thruster burn as the satellite aimed to slow its speed down enough for Martian gravity to take over. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory was understandably thrilled.
MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, but you'd be better off calling this satellite a climate detective. Its mission is to help us figure out how Mars lost all its water millions of years ago, back when the planet looked a lot like Earth. Mars has almost no air pressure, which is necessary to keep liquid water from dissipating into space
So far MAVEN is alone, but it should have a friend on Tuesday — an Indian satellite called the Mars Orbiter Mission, which is on its way to study Martian methane (another clue to the climate mystery).
Also expected on the scene includes, one or two Earth-born companions still roaming the Martian surface. Delightfully, they're tweeting at each other.
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