Category: Personal Musings

• To Mars and beyond

  Last week, not one but two orbiters arrived at Mars: NASA’s MAVEN and the Indian Space Research Organization’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM). These projects are very different in scope and purpose. MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is a sophisticated chemistry lab packaged inside a space probe, designed to measure the composition of Mars’ atmosphere…

  Matthew R. Francis

  September 29, 2014

  Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields, Personal Musings

  Mars, planetary science, Space exploration