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NASA | MAVEN Mission to Mars
November 15, 2013
NASA | MAVEN Mission to Mars
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Robert Lin, the late director of the Space Sciences Laboratory, discusses how NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will study the interaction of the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind. MAVEN's findings will...
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MAVEN selfie with Mars in the background.
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The MAVEN Solar Wind Ion Analyzer will study ions in the Martian atmosphere, a key component for better understanding the planet's evolution.
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In the late evening hours of August 2, 2013, the MAVEN spacecraft arrived on the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
MAVEN arrives at KSC
A transporter moves NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, inside a payload fairing, to the Vertical Integration Facility at Launch Complex 41 where it will be hoisted atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocke...
MAVEN Arrives at Launch Pad
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is quickly approaching Mars on a mission to study its upper atmosphere.
Artist's Concept of NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Approaching Mars
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At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Compex-41, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, along with other agency and contractor officials spoke to members of the news media about preparatio...
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The Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (SWEA) is a part of the Particles and Fields (P & F) Package and will measure the solar wind and ionospheric electrons.
Solar Wind Electron Analyzer for MAVEN Spacecraft
This graphic depicts paths by which carbon has been exchanged among Martian interior, surface rocks, polar caps, waters and atmosphere, and also depicts a mechanism by which it is lost from the atm...
Carbon Exchange and Loss Processes on Mars
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands at Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida during a "wet dress rehearsal."
Atlas V Dress Rehearsal for MAVEN Launch
Energetic particles from a large solar storm in September 2017 were seen both in Mars orbit by NASA's MAVEN orbiter, and on the surface of Mars by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
Solar Storm's Radiation at Martian Orbit and Surface
A map of MAVEN's IUVS’s auroral detections in December 2014 overlaid on Mars’ surface.
Map of Auroral Detections on Mars
Following liftoff, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft separates from the Centaur upper stage.
MAVEN Separates from Centaur Upper Stage
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