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November 18, 2013
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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 is an artist's conception of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution MissioN (MAVEN) Mars orbiter.
Artist's Concept of MAVEN
NASA Goddard hosted a live Google+ Hangout on Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 4 p.m. EST about MAVEN, NASA's next mission to Mars.
NASA's MAVEN Mars Mission Pre-Launch Hangout
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This image shows an artist concept of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission.
Artist Concept of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN)
MAVEN, which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, is a new NASA spacecraft embarking on a mission to study Mars' upper atmosphere, seeking to learn how the atmosphere and environment ...
MAVEN to Explore Upper Atmosphere of Mars
NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, inside a payload fairing, is hoisted to the top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at ...
MAVEN Spacecraft Positioned Atop Atlas V Rocket
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
Five decades of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet, 1965-2015.
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MAVEN's Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph obtained images of rapid cloud formation on Mars on July 9-10, 2016.
MAVEN Captures Rapid Cloud Formation
Mars was once on track to become a thriving Earth-like planet, yet today it is an apparently lifeless wasteland. A NASA spacecraft named MAVEN will soon journey to Mars to find out what went wrong ...
What Happened to Mars? A Planetary Mystery
MAVEN Launching.
MAVEN Launching
This is an artist's model of an early Mars - billions of years ago - which may have had oceans and a thicker atmosphere.
Mars Evolution from Wet to Dry
To receive the same amount of starlight as Mars receives from our Sun, a planet orbiting an M-type red dwarf would have to be positioned much closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun.
How Habitable Might an Exo-Mars Be?
A lunar eclipse, a solar eclipse and Mars has a close encounter with a comet.
What's Up for October?
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.
MAVEN's Ultraviolet Views of Hydrogen's Escape from Mars
The orbit of MAVEN sometimes crosses the orbit of Phobos. This image shows the configuration of the two orbits in early December 2015, when MAVEN's Phobos observations were made.
Orbit of MAVEN and Phobos
These eight graphs present data from the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer on NASA's MAVEN orbiter identifying ions of different metals added to the Martian atmosphere shortly after comet C/201...
Ions of Eight Metals from Comet Dust Detected in Mars Atmosphere
The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) instrument, shown here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., before its integration onto NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Ev...
MAVEN Neutral and Ion Mass Spectrometer
MAVEN selfie composite, annotated
MAVEN Selfie Composite, Annotated
A map of MAVEN's Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) auroral detections in December 2014 overlaid on Mars’ surface.
Ultraviolet Aurora on Mars
MAVEN selfie with Mars in the background.
MAVEN Selfie with Mars in the Background
This graphic depicts what Mars' atmosphere would have looked like to a viewer with ultraviolet-seeing eyes after a meteor shower on Oct. 19, 2014. It combines an image from the Imaging Ultraviolet ...
Emission from Ionized Magnesium in Mars' Atmosphere After Comet Flyby
This animation first shows Curiosity working to understand Mars as a past habitat, with a cut to MAVEN arriving at Mars to study the upper Martian atmosphere. (Audio: music and mechanical sounds only)
Curiosity and MAVEN Explore Mars
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