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The MAVEN Mission: Exploring Mars’ Climate History
Sandra Cauffman, NASA/GSFC
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20150022427 2018-05-19T12:32:49+00:00Z
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The Science
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Mars Earth
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Overarching Question: Did Mars Ever Have Life?
Mars appears to meet or have met all of the environmental requirements for the occurrence of life:
• Liquid water • Access to the biogenic elements • Source of energy to drive metabolism
Did Mars ever have life? How did any life interact with its planetary environment? How has the habitability of Mars changed over time?
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Evidence for Surface Water on Ancient Mars Where Did the Water Go? Where Did the CO2 Go?
Volatiles can go into the crust
Volatiles can be lost to space
Carbonate deposits in a Martian meteorite
Abundant evidence for ancient water
Escaping ions detected from Mars Express
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MAVEN Will Allow Us to Understand Escape of Atmospheric Gases to Space
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The Solar Wind is Able to Strip Off Gas from the Top of the Atmosphere
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The Mission
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The MAVEN Spacecraft • Launch (Wet) Mass: 2455 kg at launch • Spacecraft Dry Mass: 810 kg at launch • Power: 1135 W at Mars Aphelion
MAG (2)
Gull-Wing Solar Arrays
LPW (2)
SWEA
Articulated Payload Platform (IUVS/STATIC/NGIMS)
Fixed HGA
SWIA
SEP
SEP
Electra (behind)
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The MAVEN Science Instruments:
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Launched on 18 Nov. 2013,
first day of its 20-day launch
period Launch Vehicle:
Atlas – V 401
Ten-Month Type-II Ballistic Cruise to Mars
Orbit Insertion: 22 Sept 02:00, 2014 UTC. 33 minute rocket burn
MAVEN Mission Architecture
One Year of Science Operations
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MAVEN’s Path To Mars
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Mars Orbit Insertion Preparations
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The MAVEN Team that Got Us Here
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The Comet
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Cosmic Serendipity
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The Problem
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HST Image of Siding Spring
What you see in this image is dust
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An image of comet Halley taken by the camera on ESA’s Giotto spacecraft. Giotto was hit by a large dust particle and took 30 minutes to recover.
Giotto Image of comet Halley
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Interplanetary Dust Particle
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Actually, Not So Bad
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IUVS Imaging of Comet Siding Spring
• IUVS imaged CSS in scattered solar Lyman-alpha two days before closest approach to Mars
• Reflects distribution of atomic H surrounding comet
• H detected to distance of ~150,000 km (comparable to Mars miss distance of comet)
• Gas cloud behaves differently from dust; dust comprises bulk of tail and is what is seen in visible images, so LyA images looks different from most telescopic images
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SIDING-SPRING
The Opportunity
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Strategy: Duck and Turn Off High Voltage
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Complications
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SIDING-SPRING
An Embarrassment of Riches
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Drama In The Control Room
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A Peak at Results: Dust After All
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IUVS False-Color Image of Mg+2 Distribution
• Observed throughout periapsis pass of each orbit following comet passage • Intensity of emissions decayed in hours to days, likely due to conversion of
Mg and Fe to other forms
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A Peak at Results: Dust After All
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The Planet
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SEP Observes a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Arriving at Mars
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Magnetometer Measures Interactions With Solar Wind
| B |
• Field draped over conducting ionosphere • Lots of wave activity evident in sheath and associated with bow shock
September 23
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Martian Dayglow: Determining the Upper Atmospheric Composition
FUV channel MUV channel In
tens
ity
H
O
CO2+
Inte
nsity
108 nm 190 nm 330nm 330nmn
l190 10
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IUVS Maps Changing Mars Ozone
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39 MAVEN PSG, 12/5/2014
Atmospheric Density at Orbital Altitudes Shows Seasonal Trend
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IUVS Observations of Components of H2O and CO2 on Their Way to Escaping
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Launch Year
MRO
Mars Express Coop
Odyssey
MER
2013 2016 2018 & Beyond 2011 2009 Operational / Recent
MAVEN
Mars Science Lab
NASA s Mars Exploration Program
Mars 2020
InSight
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MAVEN Impacts All Ages
MAVEN “Send your artwork to Mars” contest, 2013
LASP Clean Room Tour, 2012 Little Miss MAVEN, Halloween, 2014
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• MAVEN launched on schedule and under budget! • It arrived at Mars in September and began its science
mission in November! • Just beginning to get science results – stay tuned!
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