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MAVEN Solar Panel
February 08, 2013
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A map of MAVEN's IUVS’s auroral detections in December 2014 overlaid on Mars’ surface.
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The MAVEN spacecraft core structure is successfully lowered and mated to the hydrazine propulsion tank and boat tail assembly at Lockheed Martin, Denver.
MAVEN Stucture Tank Integration
This graph shows how the amount of water in the atmosphere of Mars varies depending on the season.
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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.
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NASA officials discuss the launch and the mission.
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This illustration shows how water is lost on Mars normally vs. during regional or global dust storms.
How Water is Lost on Mars (Illustration)
Ultraviolet images from NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, MAVEN, were used to make this movie of rapid cloud formation on Mars.
Ultraviolet Mars Reveals Cloud Formation
This visualization shows MAVEN and Comet Siding Spring making their way through the solar system to a close encounter near Mars. This animation moves the camera in a bit closer and more parallel wi...
Comet Siding Spring Wide Shots
An Atlas V rocket lifts off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41.
Liftoff of MAVEN
This is an image of the ultraviolet “nightglow” in the Martian atmosphere. Green and white false colors represent the intensity of ultraviolet light, with white being the brightest.
Ultraviolet ‘Nightglow' of Mars Atmosphere
This is an artist's conception of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution MissioN (MAVEN) Mars orbiter.
Artist's Concept of MAVEN
Crews guide NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, spacecraft, inside a payload fairing, into place atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facili...
MAVEN Placed Atop Atlas V
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Diverse Orbits Around Mars
This anaglyph, acquired by NASA's Phoenix Lander's Surface Stereo Imager on Sol 33, the 33rd Martian day of the mission (June 28, 2008), shows a stereoscopic 3D view of the Martian surface near the...
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About 1000 Viking Orbiter red- and violet-filter images have been processed to provide global color coverage of Mars at a scale of 1 km/pixel.
Global Color Views of Mars
The Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) instrument is part of the Particles and Fields (P & F) Package and determines the impact of SEPs on the upper atmosphere.
Solar Energetic Particle Instrument for MAVEN Spacecraft
This artist's concept shows the MAVEN spacecraft in orbit around the Red Planet, with a fanciful image of her home planet in the background.
MAVEN to Mars
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MAVEN at Mars, Coloring Sheet
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft is encapsulated atop an Atlas V rocket.
MAVEN Encapsulated Atop Atlas V
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