NASA's MAVEN Mission Celebrates One Year in Martian Orbit, Delivers Fascinating Science About Red Planet's Atmosphere

By Leonidas Papadopoulos, on September 22nd, 2015

Artist’s concept of the MAVEN spacecraft in orbit around Mars. The mission recently completed one year of successful science operations around the Red planet and is already primed for a year-long extended mission until at least September 2016. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC

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NASA's MMS Fleet and the Science of Magnetic Reconnection

By Talia Landman, on March 9th, 2015

Artist’s concept of MMS, a mission to study how magnetic fields release energy in a process known as magnetic reconnection. MMS consists of four identical observatories that will fly in a tight formation and provide the first 3-D view of magnetic reconnection. Photo Credit: NASA

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To Navigate the Seas of the Sun: NASA's Solar Probe Plus Mission to the Nearest Star

By Leonidas Papadopoulos, on August 6th, 2014

Artist’s impression of NASA’s Solar Probe Plus spacecraft approaching the Sun. Set to launch in 2018, Solar Probe Plus will orbit our home star a total of 24 times while gradually approaching closer with each concecutive orbit, until it eventually achieves a minimum distance of 8.5 solar radii, or 3.7 million miles from […]

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