The recent government shutdown threatened NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) 2013 launch date and move it out to 2016 costing the agency millions and dealing a blow to it's already cash strapped budget, but now NASA is saying that MAVEN is go for a November 18th 2013 launch.
When it arrives in 2014, MAVEN will begin studying Mars' atmosphere. According to the IO9 article:
- (MAVEN) will search for clues about the planet's past, and how it quickly lost what is theorized to have been, not long ago, a much thicker atmosphere.
Check out the complete IO9 article here
NASA JPL MAVEN site HERE
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