MAVEN Spectrometer Opens Window to Mars' Past
When NASA’s MAVEN mission begins its journey to Mars, it will be equipped with a special instrument to take the planet back in time: the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer, a network of electrically charged rods that will measure the charged gas particles - or ions - making up Mars’ upper atmosphere. Designed and developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the state-of-the-art instrument will launch aboard MAVEN, short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, in November, 2013
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