2014 Event NASA Mars probe MAVEN is on track to enter the planet's orbit after a 10-month journey; the probe will collect data for a year on the upper Martian atmosphere to potentially answer questions about climate change on the planet 2013 Event NASA completes a launch of the MAVEN, whose mission is to study Mars atmosphere in depth' the data from the MAVEN will help researchers construct a history of the climate on Mars and should help them understand how the water on Mars disappeared 2012 Event The failed Fobos-Grunt spacecraft is expected to re-enter the earth's atmosphere and crash into earth in the next week 1994 Event Space probe Magellan burns up in atmosphere of Venus 1989 Event 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole" 1984 Event Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed 1979 Event U.S. Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates 1978 Event Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus 1972 Event 1 million kg heavy meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada 1969 Event Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere 1966 Event Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again 1958 Event Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere 1958 Event Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere and burns up 1956 Event Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere 1946 Event 1st U.S. rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) 1945 Event JPL WAC Corporal Launch (1st Man-Made Object to escape Atmosphere) 1882 Event Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit 1867 Birthday Charles Fabry, discoverer, ozone layer in upper atmosphere
