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Tag Archives: MAVEN
First MAVEN science data released
The first release of some of the early MAVEN science data is now available on the NASA Planetary Data System site: https://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/subscription_service/SS-20150603.shtml [More at link]
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Tagged atmosphere, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, MAVEN, NASA, University of Colorado
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Solar conjunction: mission communications pause
In June 2015, Mars will swing almost directly behind the sun from Earth’s perspective, and this celestial geometry will lead to diminished communications with spacecraft at Mars. The arrangement of the sun between Earth and Mars is called Mars solar … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Science Laboratory, MAVEN, MER, MRO, MSL, NASA, Opportunity, solar conjunction
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Blue, red, and green aurorae should be naked-eye visible in Martian sky
For the first time, an international team of scientists from NASA, the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble (IPAG), the European Space Agency and Aalto University in Finland, have predicted that colorful, glowing aurorae can be seen by the … Continue reading
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Tagged aurora, ESA, European Space Agency, Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph, Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble, IPAG, IUVS, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, Mars Express, MAVEN, MEX, NASA, SPICAM, University of Colorado
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Space traffic control at Mars
NASA has beefed up a process of traffic monitoring, communication and maneuver planning to ensure that Mars orbiters do not approach each other too closely. Last year’s addition of two new spacecraft orbiting Mars brought the census of active Mars … Continue reading
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Tagged DLR, ESA, European Space Agency, Indian Space Research Organization, ISRO, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, Mars Express, Mars Odyssey, Mars Orbiter Mission, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, MEX, MOM, MRO, NASA
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Early results from MAVEN [video]
The MAVEN mission is designed to explore Mars’ upper atmosphere and its interactions with the Sun and solar wind. The goal of MAVEN is to understand the processes controlling the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere of … 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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MAVEN: Second deep-dip campaign completed
The second “deep-dip” campaign of MAVEN’s primary science mission was successfully carried out this week. After the five-day campaign, which brought the MAVEN spacecraft down to a periapsis of 131.5km, MAVEN is now back in its nominal science mapping corridor. … 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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MAVEN completes first 1,000 orbits
MAVEN completed 1,000 orbits around the Red Planet on April 6, four-and-a-half months into its one-year primary mission. MAVEN is in its science-mapping orbit and has been taking data since the start of its primary mission on Nov. 16, 2014. … 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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MAVEN discovers aurora, high dust cloud at Mars
The MAVEN spacecraft has observed two unexpected phenomena in the Martian atmosphere: an unexplained high-altitude dust cloud and aurora that reaches deep into the Martian atmosphere. The presence of the dust at orbital altitudes from about 93 miles (150 kilometers) … Continue reading
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Tagged atmosphere, aurora, dust, Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph, IUVS, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, MAVEN, NASA, University of Colorado
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MAVEN: First deep-dip campaign completed
The MAVEN spacecraft has completed 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 … 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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MAVEN: Collecting data in deep-dip maneuver
MAVEN instruments all collecting data as expected during deep-dip. The initial MAVEN deep-dip campaign continues to go well, as the NASA #Mars orbiter maintains its targeted atmospheric density corridor between 2.0 – 3.5 kg/km³. All of the MAVEN science instruments … 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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