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MAVEN status update: July 31, 2014

Posted on July 31, 2014 by rburnham

MAVEN continues on a smooth journey to Mars. All spacecraft and instrument systems are operating nominally… At the end of this month, we went into a “pre-Mars Orbit Insertion moratorium.” All systems required for a safe Mars Orbit Insertion remain … Continue reading →

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MAVEN: Exploring solar wind beyond Earth

Posted on July 2, 2014 by rburnham

As part of its goal to explore Mars’ upper atmosphere and its interaction with the Sun and the solar wind, MAVEN is exploring propagation of the solar wind and solar energetic particles (SEPs) beyond 1 Astronomical Unit [the distance between … Continue reading →

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MAVEN mission status, June 27, 2014

Posted on June 30, 2014 by rburnham

Mission status update, from David Mitchell, Project Manager, NASA Goddard: “MAVEN continues on a smooth journey to Mars. All spacecraft and instrument systems are operating nominally. This month has been a rather quiet period for spacecraft operations. A big focus … Continue reading →

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First ‘view’ of Mars for MAVEN

Posted on June 11, 2014 by rburnham

MAVEN’s Imaging UltraViolet Spectrograph (IUVS) made calibration observations of Mars on May 21, 2014, four months before Mars Orbit Insertion (September 21). Despite the spacecraft’s relative great distance from Mars (35 million km or ~22 million miles), IUVS detected the … Continue reading →

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