On Monday, NASA confirmed the launch date of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN mission (MAVEN). According to the space agency, MAVEN will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 1:28 PM EST on November 18 on the first leg of its mission to study the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet... Continue Reading MAVEN Mars orbiter to make launch window to study Martian atmosphere
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Tags: Atmosphere, Lockheed Martin, Mars, MAVEN, NASA, Spacecraft
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