Mars Maven mission set for arrival

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Mars Maven mission set for arrival

(BBC) The US space agency's (Nasa) latest Mars satellite is set to arrive in orbit above the planet on Monday (GMT).

Hurtling through space for the past 10 months, the Maven craft must slam on the brakes by firing its thrusters.

The 33-minute burn should remove sufficient speed to allow the satellite to be captured by Mars' gravity.

Maven has been sent to study the Red Planet's high atmosphere, to try to understand the processes that have robbed the world of most of its air.

Today, the air pressure is so low that free water at the surface would instantly boil away.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29253788


-- BBC 2014-09-22

[Nuddy]

Its amazing they can get radio signals from that far away and my internet can hardly make it to my home via copper wires from the ToT office 3 kilometres away.

Regards

[petercool]

nonsense troll post and reply both removed

[thai20144]

Any updates or opinions on the Mars1 mission?

[car720]

Just for the sake of classification..

I thought this was an article about Mars the planet.

John Carter was the character from Edgar Rice Burrough's book..........

The Princess of Mars.

Hardly off topic nor troll but possibly guilty of humour.