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- ready to launch the mission that aims to find out how Mars lost its atmosphere
Washington. (EFE).-The capsule Maven NASA lifted off toward Mars from Cape Canaveral (Florida) aboard the rocket “Atlas 5″ to investigate why many of the gases forming the atmosphere of the red planet lost in space.
Although the day dawned somewhat cloudy in Florida, the rocket took off without complications and the arrival of “Maven” (stands for “Evolution of Mars Atmospheric and Volatile”) to Martian orbit is planned for late September 2014, according to NASA, the U.S. space agency.
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outer reaches of Mars, “Maven” take five weeks to orbit coupling and then start primary mission will last for one year.
“Previous missions have provided plenty of evidence that Mars once had liquid water, but is now a cold, desert planet,” said principal investigator of “Maven”, Bruce Jakosky, told the television channel NASA.
The objective of this mission is to investigate the evolution of the Martian atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun throughout history to discover the reasons why they lost much of the gas that formed it and that made the red planet in a cold desert.
Jakosky said first information of this mission will be available in early 2015, because scientists expected tarden few weeks to process the information collected by the capsule.
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