MAVEN Fact Sheet

Members of NASA's Perseverance rover mission work remotely from home during the coronavirus outbreak.

NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission acquired stunning views of Mars in two ultraviolet images taken at different points along our neighboring planet’s orbit around the Sun.

The MAVEN spacecraft is shown here in testing for Electromagnetic Interference and Electromagnetic Compatibility.

“Selfie” of the Curiosity rover with inset showing the SAM instrument prior to installation on the rover. 

The colored dots represent sites where bright radar reflections have been spotted by ESA’s Mars Express orbiter at Mars’ south polar cap.

NASA’s Perseverance captured this image June 13 of a sample it cored from a conglomerate rock called “Emerald Lake.” This “Otis Peak” core shows distinctly colored areas that are individual mineral...

As the NASA Opportunity rover team gathered to talk about the last attempts to listen for the rover’s signals from Mars, Ashley Stroupe shared her story about working with the long-lived robotic ge...

This chart illustrates comparisons among the distances driven by various wheeled vehicles on the surface of Earth's moon and Mars.  

The Perseverance rover holds many promises: to look for evidence of life on Mars, to collect rock samples meant to be sent to Earth one day, and to test technology that could be used in a future hu...

The Return to Earth camera on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter snaped this picture of geologic feature the Mars Perseverance rover team calls “Raised Ridges” during its 10th flight at Mars, on July...

JPL CubeSat clean room is doing big things for space explorations smallest inhabitants.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy an...

Six views of the Martian moon Phobos captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter as of March 2020. The orbiter's THEMIS camera is used to measure temperature variations that suggest what kind of material th...

Download a coloring sheet of NASA MAVEN orbiter and Curiosity rover working together at Mars.

The Magnetometer (MAG) is a part of the Particles and Fields (P & F) Package and measures interplanetary solar wind and ionospheric magnetic fields.

Members of the public interact with life-size models of the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter during an exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston, as part of the Roving With Perseve...

This photo taken on March 3 shows the large hydrazine propellant tank prior to integration with the core structure of the MAVEN spacecraft at a Lockheed Martin clean room near Denver.

The MAVEN spacecraft core structure is successfully lowered and mated to the hydrazine propulsion tank and boat tail assembly at Lockheed Martin, Denver.

The HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to capture this image of the descent stage that helped fly NASA’s Perseverance rover down to the surface of Mars. Color and data...

MAVEN selfie with Mars in the background.

This movie shows three views of the Martian moon Phobos as viewed in visible light by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter. The apparent motion is due to movement by Odyssey's infrared camera, Thermal ...

This artist's concept shows NASA's Mars orbiters lining up behind the Red Planet for their "duck and cover" maneuver to shield them fro comet dust that may result from the close flyby of comet Sidi...

Download a PDF of the Mars Science Laboratory Launch Press Kit.

This image shows atomic hydrogen scattering sunlight in the upper atmosphere of Mars, as seen by the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph on NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission.

A lunar eclipse, a solar eclipse and Mars has a close encounter with a comet.