MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, is a NASA orbiter launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral. It reached Mars in September 2014 and began studying the planet's upper atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind. Its measurements showed that Mars has lost much of its atmosphere to space over billions of years, stripped away by the solar wind and radiation after the planet lost its global magnetic field. This helps to explain how Mars changed from a world that may once have had liquid water on the surface to a cold and dry one. The mission also serves as a communications relay for the rovers on the surface.
Before and after
- from 4 November 2013 to 21 January 2019Premiere of Steven Universe
- 5 November 2013Launch of Mars Orbiter Mission
- 10 November 2013Release of Frozen
- 17 November 2013Death of Doris Lessing
- 18 November 2013Launch of MAVEN
- from 21 November 2013 to 23 February 2014Euromaidan
- 1 December 2013Launch of Chang'e 3
- from December 2013 to June 2016Western African Ebola virus epidemic
- 2 December 2013Premiere of Rick and Morty
More in Universe & space
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- 14 September 1974Discovery of Leda
- 22 August 1981Discovery of Pan
- 19 January 2006Launch of New Horizons
- 26 June 2012Discovery of Styx
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