NASA's Maven spacecraft approached Mars

On September 21, the MAVEN spacecraft of the US Space Agency (NASA) approached Mars, studying to prepare the project to send people to the red planet.

>>>Maven is about to enter Mars's orbit

According to AFP, after 10 months of traveling through a length of 442 million km, the MAVEN has arrived in Mars and will begin to fly in the orbit of the red planet from 8:30 am on September 22. Six MAVEN propulsion engines will be activated so that the ship reaches a steady state before entering Mars orbit.

Illustrative illustration of the MAVEN spacecraft operating on Mars orbit - (Photo: Science)

"The engines will burn for 33 minutes to slow down the MAVEN, helping gravity pull it into orbit," NASA said.

After that, MAVEN will enter a test phase on Mars orbit for six weeks before the project begins to study the red planet atmosphere within a year.

During this time, MAVEN mainly flew in orbit 6,000km from Mars's surface. However, there will be five times MAVEN descends to a height of only 125.5 km from the Martian surface to study the atmosphere of the Martian atmosphere at different heights.

"MAVEN's mission is to find out what happened to Mars and water on Mars a few billion years ago," said scientist Bruce Jakosky of NASA's MAVEN project. important to understand Mars 'history, climate and ability to support life.'

NASA's Curiosity autonomous robot is also studying rocky soil on Mars to find evidence of life on the red planet many billions of years ago. NASA says the MAVEN project is an important preparation for implementing a plan to bring people to the red planet by 2030.

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