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Tag Archives: University of Colorado
MAVEN completes Deep-Dip #7
The MAVEN spacecraft has successfully completed an eight-day deep dip campaign with the execution of a 1.8 m/sec. ∆V (change in velocity) maneuver on August 22 to raise periapsis by 11 km. The post-maneuver altitude of the spacecraft is currently … Continue reading
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MAVEN: Deep-Dip Campaign #7 begins
After two weeks with minimal contact due to the recent Mars solar conjunction, the MAVEN spacecraft has recovered full communications and has resumed nominal science operations. Beginning on August 4, the team spent four days examining the health of the … Continue reading
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MAVEN team preparing for Deep Dip #7
MAVEN is scheduled to exit Mars solar conjunction—the period when Earth and Mars are obscured from each other by the sun—on August 5, 2017. As solar conjunction comes to a close, the MAVEN team is preparing to return to normal … Continue reading
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MAVEN: Top 10 discoveries of first 1,000 days in orbit
On June 17, the MAVEN mission will celebrate 1,000 Earth days in orbit around the Red Planet. Since its launch in November 2013 and its orbit insertion in September 2014, MAVEN has been exploring the upper atmosphere of Mars. MAVEN … Continue reading
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MAVEN argon study: 65% of Mars atmosphere lost
Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, according to new results from NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and … Continue reading
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MAVEN fires rocket engine to dodge Phobos
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars’ moon Phobos. (…) On Tuesday, Feb. 28, the spacecraft carried out a rocket motor burn that boosted its velocity by … Continue reading
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MAVEN: High-altitude water gives atmospheric escape route for Mars hydrogen
Researchers at the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics have discovered an atmospheric escape route for hydrogen on Mars, a mechanism that may have played a significant role in the planet’s loss of liquid water. The findings … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, H2O, hydrogen, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, MAVEN, NASA, University of Colorado, water
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MAVEN: Marvelous Martian
On Planetary Radio at The Planetary Society: MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution orbiter, has gone a long way toward solving the mystery of the Red Planet’s missing water and air. The University of Colorado’s Nick Schneider says it … Continue reading
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MAVEN: Ups & downs of water escape from Mars
After investigating the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet for a full Martian year, MAVEN has determined that escaping water does not always go gently into space. Sophisticated measurements made by a suite of instruments on the MAVEN spacecraft revealed … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph, IUVS, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, MAVEN, NASA, University of Colorado
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