Medicine & TechnologyNASA's MAVEN mission captured ultraviolet images of Mars, revealing insights into its atmosphere, seasonal variations, atmospheric loss, and climate history. Continue reading to learn more.
NASA announced that the MAVEN Mars orbiter is under repair. Read more about the malfunction that caused the problem and the future of operations related to the spacecraft.
Scientists have further decoded the phenomenon that led Mars to lose the equivalent of a global ocean of water up to hundreds of feet deep over billions of years.
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) has discovered the appearance of major metals on Mars' surface; indicating towards life existence on the red planet; know more here
Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) spacecraft led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
Maven spacecraft currently orbiting Mars was on its way to collide with Mars's moon Phobos but NASA's scientists successfully changed the spacecraft's path and avoided the mishap.
It's only been a day since skywatchers around the world were treated to a particularly energetic display of auroras because of an intense geomagnetic storm, but researchers have announced that NASA's MAVEN mission has observed auroras on Mars as well, only they are in energetic ultraviolet wavelengths instead of visible light.
Mars had a close call this past weekend as a comet passed so close to the Red Planet that NASA moved its three Mars orbiters to the opposite side of the planet hoping to shield them from the dust and gas debris left by the tail of Comet Siding Spring.