After years of hard work by dedicated science and engineering teams, a new pair of Mars orbiter science missions from Earth are in the final stages of prelaunch processing and are nearly set to blast off for the Red Planet in November.
If all goes well, NASA's MAVEN orbiter and India's MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission) will "work together" to help solve the mysteries of Mars atmosphere, the chief MAVEN scientist told Universe Today at a NASA briefing today (Oct. 28).
"We plan to collaborate on some overlapping objectives," Bruce Jakosky told me. Jakosky is MAVEN's principal Investigator from the University of Colorado at Boulder. (...)
Read the rest of MAVEN and MOM Missions from NASA and India Plan Martian Science Collaboration in Orbit (867 words)
(c) Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2013.
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