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Mars just acquired a new orbiting robot buddy.
At 7:24 p.m. PDT (10:24 p.m. EDT) on Sunday (Sept. 21), NASAs Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft arrived at Mars orbit after an epic 10-month journey to the Red Planet. MAVEN joins an armada of Mars satellites, but it is the first mission to the planet that will study the thin Martian upper atmosphere in mind-blowing detail. The mission wont only add detail to our increasingly comprehensive knowledge of our solar system neighbor, it will also aid future manned missions.
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As the first orbiter dedicated to studying Mars upper atmosphere, MAVEN will greatly improve our understanding of the history of the Martian atmosphere, how the climate has changed over time, and how that has influenced the evolution of the surface and the potential habitability of the planet, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in a space agency news release. It also will better inform a future mission to send humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s.
MAVEN joins two existing NASA Mars orbiters the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey and the European Mars Express mission. The Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is scheduled to also arrive at Mars on Thursday. The soon-to-be fleet of 5 satellites will continue to support and supplement the science being acquired by NASAs Mars rover Curiosity and Opportunity as they work on the ground.
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NASA has a long history of scientific discovery at Mars and the safe arrival of MAVEN opens another chapter, said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agencys Headquarters in Washington. Maven will complement NASAs other Martian robotic explorers and those of our partners around the globe to answer some fundamental questions about Mars and life beyond Earth.
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NASA's Maven orbiter entered Martian orbit on Sunday after a journey of 10 months and 442 million miles, opening the way for a mission that could reveal what happened to the Red Planet's air and water.
The $671 million mission is designed to study Mars' upper atmosphere for one Earth year. But if Sunday's engine firing had gone awry, all that money and work would have gone for nothing. Fortunately, the bus-sized spacecraft's six rocket engines did the job, although mission managers reported that it took slightly longer than the planned 33 minutes.
Because of the distance between Earth and Mars, the readings confirming a successful burn were received at Maven's mission control center near Denver about 12.5 minutes after the spacecraft shut down the engine. Team members had brought peanuts and Mars candy bars to the Lockheed Martin facility as good-luck treats.
"Congratulations, Maven is now in Mars orbit," Dave Folta, mission design and navigation lead, told the team. That long-awaited word sparked an eruption of applause and hugs.
The University of Colorado's Bruce Jakosky, principal investigator for the Maven mission, noted that it's taken 11 years of planning to get the spacecraft to Mars. "I think my heart's about ready to start again," he said during a post-burn news briefing.
Sunday's maneuver put Maven into a highly elliptical pole-to-pole orbit, ranging in altitude from 236 miles to 27,700 miles (380 kilometers to 44,600 kilometers). Over the next several weeks, additional maneuvers will put the spacecraft into the prescribed orbit for its science mission, which will range as close as 77 miles (125 kilometers).
Maven's name comes from an acronym that stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. The spacecraft's observations are expected to help scientists figure out how Mars lost most of its atmosphere over the course of billions of years a phenomenon that turned it from a world with liquid water that could have sustained life to the cold, dry planet we see today. Mars' current atmosphere, dominated by carbon dioxide, is only 1 percent as dense as Earth's.
Scientists suspect that storms of charged particles from the sun stripped off molecules from the upper atmosphere. Maven will measure the current rate of atmospheric loss valuable data that will be factored into computerized climate models for Mars.
"We measure these things today even though the processes we're interested in operated billions of years ago," Jakosky explained during a briefing last week.
Maven won't just be answering questions about ancient Mars. The planet appears to be going through an upswing in dust storms, said Richard Zurek, chief scientist for the Mars Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Maven is arriving "just in time to see the imprint of that on the atmosphere of Mars," Zurek said during a Planetary Society webcast.
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A NASA spacecraft built to study the atmosphere of Mars like never before will arrive at the Red Planet tonight (Sept. 21) and you canwatchit live online.
After 10 months in deep-space, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is expected toenter orbit around Marsand begin a one-year mission studying the planet's upper atmosphere. The Mars arrival will cap a 442 million-mile (711 million kilometers) trek across the solar system.
You canwatch the MAVEN spacecraft arrive at Marson Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV, in a live webcast that runs from 9:30 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. EDT (0130 to 0245 GMT). If all goes well, MAVEN will enter orbit around Mars at 9:50 p.m. EDT (0250 GMT), according to NASA officials.
"So far, so good with the performance of the spacecraft and payloads on the cruise to Mars," David Mitchell, NASA's MAVEN project manager at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,said in a statement. "Theteam, the flight system, and all ground assets are ready for Mars orbit insertion."
The $671 million MAVEN spacecraft eight instruments to study the Martian atmosphere in detail. It is one of two missions that launched toward Mars last November and are making theirarrival this month. The other probe isIndia's Mars Orbiter Mission, which launched just before MAVEN and will arrive at the Red Planet on Wednesday (Sept. 24).
Mars' upper atmosphere is an escape zone for molecules floating dozens of miles from the planet's surface. Scientists think that, as the solar wind hits the atmosphere, the radiation strips away the lighter molecules and flings them into space forever. [NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft: 10 Surprising Facts]
"The MAVEN science mission focuses on answering questions about where did the water that was present on early Mars go, about where did the carbon dioxide go," said Bruce Jakosky, the mission's principal investigator at the University of Colorado, Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. "These are important questions for understanding the history of Mars, its climate, and its potential to support at least microbial life."
Bougher is interested in studying the speed at which ions (charged atoms) and neutral gases leave the atmosphere of Mars. This process could change with solar activity, and also as dust storms sweep the planet's surface. MAVEN will arrive just as the Martian storm season begins, Bougher said.
"If we are so fortunate as to get a global dust storm or a reasonable dust storm, the lower atmosphere will inflate like a balloon, and the upper atmosphere will inflate on top of that," he said. "The processes have not been studied well before."
Jakosky, MAVEN's lead researcher, is examining how stable isotopes (element types) of hydrogen and its heavier version, deuterium, changed over time. In theory, as the solar wind hit the Red Planet's atmosphere, the lighter hydrogen in the atmosphere should have been stripped away and decreased proportionally near Mars.
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