/ / CyberSecurity.ru / / – space agency NASA today announced its readiness for tomorrow’s launch of a new research unit Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN), which will have to go to Mars, to go into orbit around and do research to help understand what happened to the Martian water, where she was lost and how it was that Mars has evolved from a relatively warm world of high humidity in the cold desert.
machine must be on board to start rocket Atlas 5 production with United Launch Alliance launch site at Cape Canaveral in Florida. 2-hour launch window opens Nov. 18 at 22:28 MSK. Flight to Mars Takes Maven about 10 months, that is, 2.5-ton machine should come to the Red Planet in September 2014.
As described in NASA, the main task MAVEN will study the Martian atmosphere, climate history and assessment of the potential habitability of the planet. “MAVEN has as a main objective the detection of life, it will help us to understand the climate history of Mars. We will try to understand in what period of time Mars could be habitable, and that certainly could happen to life on the planet” – said a senior scientific consultant Bruce MAVEN Yakovski .
According to him, today Mars – it’s red-orange parched deserts, but it was not always in the past climate of the planet was warmer, and on the surface, most likely, the river flowed. One of the main points of the MAVEN – understand when and, more importantly, why Mars has evolved from a suitable place to live in what we are seeing now.
“We are preparing for the start of the unit until all our work is going on schedule, “- says Yakovski. According to him, if MAVEN will be revealed some minor problems, the staff has a 20-day launch window for their elimination. If the problems are more serious, the start will be delayed until 2014.
launch was originally scheduled for 2011, but given the shift schedule for the preparation, launch will take place only at the end of 2013. Some changes made and Mars, suitable as close to Earth only once every 26 months. “The planned flight will enable the first direct measurements of the Martian atmosphere to produce a number of important answers related to the evolution of the planet,” – says Doug Makkeschen, director of research programs to explore Mars for NASA.
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