MAVEN Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:46:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg MAVEN Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 MAVEN Spacecraft Takes Off For Mars https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/11/20/1-maven-spacecraft-takes-mars/ Thu, 21 Nov 2013 03:04:23 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=11609 This week, a "robotic explorer” left Earth on its way to Mars.

It should get there next September. Mars is more than 700 million kilometres away.

The explorer is going to Mars to try to solve some of the planet’s mysteries.

For instance, why is Mars now a cold, dry planet when it started out warm and wet?

The Associated Press reports that “the early Martian atmosphere was thick enough to hold water and possibly support microbial life.”

Scientists at NASA want to know what happened to change that.

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