MAVEN: First deep-dip campaign completed

The MAVEN spacecraft has completedmaven_mars_sunrise the first of five deep-dip maneuvers designed to gather measurements closer to the lower end of the Martian upper atmosphere. “During normal science mapping, we make measurements between an altitude of about 150 km and 6,200 km (93 miles and 3,853 miles) above the surface,” said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics… [More at link]

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