Nasa craft arrives at Mars after 442m-mile trek

Nasa’s Maven spacecraft has arrived at Mars after a 442m-mile journey that began nearly a year ago.

The robotic explorer fired its brakes and successfully slipped into orbit around the red planet. “This is such an incredible night,” said John Grunsfeld, Nasa’s chief for science missions.

Now the real work begins for the $671m (€523m) mission, the first dedicated to studying Mars’s upper atmosphere.