<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>After 10-month voyage across more than 400 million miles of empty space, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft reached Mars on Sept. 21st 2014. Less than 8 hours later, the data
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>The entry, descent and landing demonstrator module that will fly on the 2016 ExoMars mission has been named ‘Schiaparelli’ in honour of the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who
<table align=right cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=310> <tr> <td align=center> <p class=small><br />Mariner 9 image of the north polar cap of Mars. The image was taken on 12 October 1972, about one-half Martian month