MAVEN webinar: Getting cozy with Mars

The MAVEN spacecraft has successfully completed an aerobraking campaign, lowering the highest altitude of the satellite’s orbit to better transmit data from present and future Martian rovers and landers, while continuing its observations of the Martian atmosphere.

In this MAVEN Outreach Webinar from June 26, 2019, Dale Theiling, MAVEN’s Science Operations Center manager at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, describes the aerobraking process and provides an update on the mission. [More at link and here]

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