Welcome to Mars! MAVEN settles in around the Red Planet

MAVEN has arrived! After a 10-month journey through space, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN spacecraft finally entered Martian orbit Sunday night. The satellite slipped into a 35-hour elliptical orbit without a hitch, which the scientists will eventually adjust to a 4.5-hour orbit.



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