NASA Scientist Map Wind Flow Pattern on Mars

Thousif Pasha 

BSc-P.M.E (2nd year)

 Washington: NASA scientists have mapped the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of mars 120 to 300 km above the red planet’s surface.  The researches, including those from the university of Maryland, Baltimore country (UMBC) in the US, reprogrammed probes aboard NASA’S mars atmosphere and volatile evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft to collect wind measurements on the red planet.  The reprogramming allowed an instrument called the natural gas and mass spectrometer (NGIMS) Aboard to “swing back and forth like a windshield wiper fast enough, “the scientists said in a statement.  “On mars, the average circulation is steady, but if you take a snapshot at any given time, the winds are highly variable,” Benna said. The research team hopes to figure out whether the same basic process is in action on earth super atmosphere.