RocketSTEM Issue #7 - May 2014 | Page 7

- NASA’s Magellan, which complet- there is a relationship between the increasing wind speeds and the slowing rotation. was heavily altered in the past by maintain the elliptical orbit are - lising hints that the planet may well be still geologically active today. cently. solar wind and atom analysing inwill record the conditions that the tempted. - - - short ‘aerodrag’ campaigns where - “The campaign also provides the tise the critical operations tech- perhaps as deep as 130 km, mayhave shown large variations over - mission operations. operations like these that we can volcanism. - - wards, its orbit will be raised again and limited operations will conpermitting. end. veiled planet than anyone ever - www.RocketSTEM .org 05 05