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Animation of MAVEN orbiting Mars
September 22, 2014
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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft recently completed assembly and has started environmental testing. In the Multipurpose Test Facility clean room at Lockheed Martin, technicians installed the orbiter's two s...
MAVEN Solar Panel
Interact with this 3D model of MAVEN.
MAVEN Orbiter, 3D Model
This artist concept depicts the process of orbital insertion of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft.
MAVEN Spacecraft Trajectory
The Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrometer (IUVS) is a part of the Remote Sensing (RS) Package and measures global characteristics of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere.
Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrometer for MAVEN Spacecraft
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
The Langmuir Probe and Waves (LPW) instrument is part of the Particles and Fields (P & F) Package and determines ionospheric properties and wave heating of escaping ions and solar EUV input to ...
Langmuir Probe And Waves Instrument for MAVEN Spacecraft
The Suprathermal and Thermal Ion Composition (STATIC) instrument is part of the Particles and Fields (P & F) Package and measures thermal ions to moderate energy escaping ions.
Suprathermal And Thermal Ion Composition Instrument for MAVEN Spacecraft
NASA managers poll the launch team to ensure all is ready for the liftoff of an Atlas V at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41.
MAVEN Ready for Launch
NASA | MAVEN Mission to Mars
NASA | MAVEN Mission to Mars
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
A dust storm continues to envelop the Red Planet and Curiosity’s labs are back in action.
Mars Report: July 2018
This artist's concept depicts the early Martian environment (left) - believed to contain liquid water and a thicker atmosphere - versus the cold, dry environment seen at Mars today (right).
The Look of a Young Mars
MAVEN Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) delivered to Lockheed Martin.
MAVEN Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is quickly approaching Mars on a mission to study its upper atmosphere. When it arrives on September 21, 2014, MAVEN's winding journey from Earth will culminate with a drama...
MAVEN Targeting Mars
MAVEN selfie with Mars in the background.
MAVEN Selfie with Mars in the Background
MAVEN selfie composite, annotated
MAVEN Selfie Composite, Annotated
The Magnetometer (MAG) is a part of the Particles and Fields (P & F) Package and measures interplanetary solar wind and ionospheric magnetic fields.
MAVEN Magnetometer
The diagram explains the cause of Mars’ glowing nightside atmosphere.
Diagram of Mars' Glowing Nightside
The Remote Sensing package aboard the MAVEN spacecraft, was conceived, designed and built by the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (CU/LASP) at Boulder.
Remote Sensing Package for MAVEN Spacecraft
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V first stage is lifted for stacking at Launch Pad 41 in preparation for the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution,...
MAVEN's Atlas V Lifted to Launch Pad
This artist concept depicts NASA’s Space Launch System, which will be the most powerful rocket ever built. It is designed to boost the agency’s Orion spacecraft on deep space missions, including to...
Space Launch System Rocket Clearing the Clouds
Mars presents intriguing questions to scientists: How did the Red Planet become so desolate? Did Mars once look like Earth? How has it changed? The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (M...
MAVEN Teaser
The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) measures the composition and isotopes of thermal neutrals and ions.
Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer for MAVEN Spacecraft
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
A map of MAVEN's IUVS’s auroral detections in December 2014 overlaid on Mars’ surface.
Map of Auroral Detections on Mars
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