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July 18, 2013

MAVEN Spectrometer Opens Window to Red Planet's Past
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 19, 2013
When NASA's MAVEN mission begins its journey to the Red Planet later this year, it will be equipped with a special instrument to take the planet back in time. That instrument is 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 in Greenbelt, Md., the state-of-the-art instrument will launch aboard MAVEN, short for Mars Atm ... read more

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