{"id":27273,"date":"2018-10-23T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27273"},"modified":"2018-10-23T12:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:18:35","slug":"nasas-mars-probe-beams-back-selfie-to-mark-four-years-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasas-mars-probe-beams-back-selfie-to-mark-four-years-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Mars probe beams back selfie to mark four years in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/lifestyle\/science\/nasas-mars-probe-beams-back-selfie-to-mark-four-years-in-orbit\/1324342\/\">NASA\u2019s Mars probe beams back selfie to mark four years in orbit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft of NASA has beamed back a selfie to mark its four years of orbiting Mars.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong> About Maven Mission:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The MAVEN mission of NASA was launched on November 18, 2013, and went into Mars orbit on September 21, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Its objective was to explore \u00a0the Martian upper atmosphere and its influence on climate.<\/li>\n<li>MAVEN has completed its primary mission in November 2015 and has been operating in an extended mission with continuous investigation of Mars upper atmosphere .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong> Findings of MAVEN Mission:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Found compelling evidence that the loss of atmosphere to space has been a major driver of climate change on Mars.<\/li>\n<li>It demonstrated that \u00a0majority of the carbon dioxide (CO2) on Mars has been lost to space and there is not enough left to support life on the planet by warming it.<\/li>\n<li>It also discovered two new types of Martian auroras i.e., <strong>Diffuse aurora<\/strong> and <strong>Proton aurora<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong> Road ahead<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Next year, researchers will carefully guide the spacecraft through Mars upper atmosphere to slow it.<\/li>\n<li>This will reduce the highest altitude in MAVEN\u2019s orbit to enhance its ability to communicate effectively with rovers on the Martian surface.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, MAVEN carries out about one relay pass per week with one of the rovers and this number will increase after NASA&#8217;s <strong>InSight mission <\/strong>lands on Mars in November 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong> About NASA&#8217;s InSight mission <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (INSIGHT), is a Mars lander designed by NASA to study the deep interior of Mars, taking the planet&#8217;s vital signs, its pulse and temperature.<\/li>\n<li>It is the first outer space robotic explorer to study in-depth the &#8220;inner space&#8221; of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core, since the planet formed 4.5 billion years ago.<\/li>\n<li>InSight has three Science Instruments, namely a seismometer, a heat flow probe and a radio science experiment to analyse MARS interior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Mars probe beams back selfie to mark four years in orbit News: MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft of NASA has beamed back a selfie to mark its four years of orbiting Mars. Important Facts: About Maven Mission: The MAVEN mission of NASA was launched on November 18, 2013, and went into Mars&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasas-mars-probe-beams-back-selfie-to-mark-four-years-in-orbit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA\u2019s Mars probe beams back selfie to mark four years in orbit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704698533},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}