Mars Atmosphere
Mars Global Surveyor is finding the planet's atmosphere to be about twice as dense as predicted at the upper levels, but engineers have been able to compensate with minor altitude changes for the aerobraking passes. The density difference has little effect on Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) because it...
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