Friday, September 26, 2014

NASA’s MAVEN Satellite Sends First Pictures form Mars

   After a 10 moth-travel in space, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) spacecraft arrived at the Red Planet Sunday night. Two days later, the Indian Mangalyaan probe also arrived. The two orbiters have recently beamed back their first snaps of Mars.

MAVEN has used its imaging UV Spectograph to grab false color images in three different UV wavelengths. According to NASA, the observations were taken from an altitude of 36,... (continue reading >>)

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