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Scientific paper
Dec 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufm.p23e..01j&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #P23E-01
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[6225] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Mars
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The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, to be launched in November 2013, will explore the martian upper atmosphere, examine escape rates at the present epoch, and provide information to allow extrapolation into the past. The overarching goal is to understand the role that escape of atmospheric species to space has played through time, and to determine its importance relative to other loss processes in controlling the changing martian climate. Instruments on board MAVEN will determine the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere, the rates of loss of atoms, ions, and molecules to space, and the solar energetic inputs that control the relevant processes. Along with understanding the processes, measurements of isotopic ratios and of the direct response to changing solar drivers will allow extrapolation into the past. MAVEN will orbit Mars in an elliptical orbit that allows wide sampling in altitude, latitude, longitude, and the different regions of near-Mars space. Its primary mission lasts one Earth year, but we anticipate having fuel to operate for longer. MAVEN passed its Critical Design Review in July 2011, and is in process of manufacturing the instruments and spacecraft components. System integration and test begins in summer 2012. The key hardware and management partners on the mission are University of Colorado, Goddard Space Flight Center, University of California at Berkeley, Lockheed Martin, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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