The Maven is about to enter Mars's orbit

An unmanned spacecraft of the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) launched into space at the end of last year to study Mars's climate change will go into the orbit of the red planet. September 22, after a 10-month journey, according to AFP on September 18.

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The Maven, short for Mars's Unstable Climate and Evolutionary Mission, will perform a different mission from NASA's previous missions, focusing solely on understanding the mystery of Mars's upper atmosphere. Never studied, but not aimed at the dry surface of the red planet.

The vessel was designed to find out what happened to carbon dioxide in the air and water on the Martian surface to explain why the red planet loses its warmth and water over time, to become a dry place cannot develop life.

Maven will find out why Mars lost its atmosphere - (Photo: NASA)

Maven's research results are expected to help pave the way for future human visits to the red planet, possibly as early as 2030.

NASA on September 17 said that the Maven has gone on a 711 million km journey and is almost ready to advance into Mars orbit.

According to the space agency, the Maven trajectory penetration process is scheduled to take place at 1:50 pm on September 22 (GMT time, ie 8:50 pm on the same day in Vietnam time).

The six Maven small propulsion engines will start to help keep the stable spacecraft in orbit. The engines will fire within 33 minutes to help the ship slow down to drag it into elliptical orbit around Mars, NASA said in a statement.

Once Maven starts flying around Mars, it will enter a six-week period for tests before performing its red planetary research mission.

"Maven will begin the main year-long mission to get the parameters of composition, structure and air release in the Martian atmosphere, as well as their interaction with the solar wind and sunlight " , NASA said.

The Maven probe is placed on the Atlas V 401 rocket leaving the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Base in Florida (USA) on November 18, 2013 - (Photo: AFP)

In one year of this mission, the $ 671 million Maven vessel will fly around the red planet at an altitude of 6,000km and it will have five times lowered to a distance of only 125km from the Martian surface, to have The atmosphere can be studied in different locations.

According to AFP, the 2,453kg square ship with each 2.5-meter-long edge will reveal the reason why the Martian atmosphere becomes too cold and thin to support the existence of water in the form of liquid.

It is known that Maven is part of an ambitious program, consisting of many probes and self-propelled vehicles launched to Mars to collect data, to pave the way for the mission to fly people to the planet to act In the 2030s, NASA said.

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