A NASA image of Mars from the Hubble Space Telescope
The NASA mission to mars, MAVEN (Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutionN), will be launching in a little over a week on November 18. This very exciting mission is going to investigate what happened to Mars’s atmosphere. It is thought that at one time the atmosphere was dense enough to support water on the surface of Mars. The mission will give clues about whether Mars could have supported life at one time. MAVEN will take 10 months to reach the planet of Mars.
You can keep tabs on the mission here.
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