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LASP Boulder Web Screen Grab for MAVEN

The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) Web site for MAVEN based at the University of Colorado at Boulder

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NASA's Mars page

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The latest in news from NASA's probes and missions to the Red Planet

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MAVEN News

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Send Names and Messages to Mars

NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will ...

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The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer instrument, shown here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated to Spacecraft

An instrument that will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere has been integrated to NASA's MAVEN spacecraft.

Mars with it's lumpy magnetic field illustrated next to a floating compass icon

Measuring Mars: The MAVEN Magnetometer

The Goddard-built MAVEN magnetometer will be a sensitive tool investigating what remains of the Red Planet’s magnetic "shield" and interactions with ...

MAVEN: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN

    Answers About Mars Climate History

    • The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, scheduled for launch in late 2013, will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere.

    • The goal of MAVEN is to determine the role that loss of atmospheric gas to space played in changing the Martian climate through time. Where did the atmosphere – and the water – go?

    • MAVEN will determine how much of the Martian atmosphere has been lost over time by measuring the current rate of escape to space and gathering enough information about the relevant processes to allow extrapolation backward in time.

MAVEN Images

MAVEN Orbiting Mars

MAVEN Mars orbiter
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MAVEN

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