SPACE.com: A new NASA unmanned spacecraft destined for Mars is scheduled to launch in 2013. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, called “Maven” for short, will cost $438 million and will study Mars’s atmosphere. “Maven will examine all known ways the sun is currently swiping the Martian atmosphere, and may discover new ones as well,” said Joseph Grebowsky, the mission’s project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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