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<p><strong><font size="2">The NASA Scout Mission Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has been approved.</font></strong></p><p class="first"><font size="2"><strong><font color="#800000">The US space agency (Nasa) has approved its next orbiter mission to Mars.</font></strong> </font></p><p><font size="2" color="#800000"><strong>The Maven spacecraft will arrive at the Red Planet in late 2014, to study the atmosphere and climate history of Earth's near neighbour. </strong></font></p><p><font size="2" color="#800000"><strong>The satellite will be equipped with eight scientific instruments and will fly low enough on occasions to sam......... <font color="#000000">From BBC Science & Technology.</font> </strong></font></p><p><strong><font size="2">Links below.</font></strong></p><p><font size="4">MAVEN @ NASA.</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7618344.stm" target="_blank"><font size="4">MAVEN. BBC article.</font></font></p></a><p><font size="4"><font size="4">MAVEN. LiveScience.com article.</font> <font color="#000000">Written by <strong>Leonard David.</strong></font> </font></p><p><font size="4"><font size="2"><strong>Andrew Brown.</strong></font></font></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>