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    Mars Atmosphere & Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN)

    The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) was launched in November 2013, to explore the planet's upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind. After a 10 month ballistic cruise the craft went into orbit in September 2014. The primary mission was planned to last for one earth year. To obtain coverage of near Mars space the mission was designed with an elliptical orbit that precessed in latitude and local solar time. The mission plan included nominal orbits that have periapsis near 150 km, with 5 "deep dip" campaigns with periapsis near 125 km.

    Basic Mission Goals

    Determine the role that loss of volatiles from the Mars atmosphere to space has played through time

    Determine the current state of the upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interactions with the solar wind

    Determine the current rates of escape of neutral gases and ions to space and the processes controlling them

    Determine the ratios of stable isotopes that will tell Mars' history of loss through time

    For more information on the MAVEN mission see the following links:


    Instrumentation and Access to Data:

    The instrument complement consists of:
    1. A mass spectrometer to determine global characteristics of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere,
    2. An ultraviolet spectrometer to characterize the upper atmosphere and ionosphere,
    3. A solar EUV irradiance monitor and
    4. A fields and particles integrated package for in situ measurements. Included in the package are: LPW, SWEA and SEP to measure electrons and SWIA and STATIC to detect ions, while magnetic fields and electric fields are recorded by MAG and LPW respectively.
    5. In addition, accelerometer data is acquired in the 5 "deep-dip" campaigns to sample the lower atmosphere

    Archive Bundles

    MAVEN Mission Bundle contains documents and files that are common to all the instruments describing the mission and spacecraft

    Each of the following archive bundles contain collections for system context, documentation of the data, individual data collections of raw, reduced and/or derived data products complete with calibration information where applicable.

    Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) data are stored in time ordered ASCII tables with supporting documentation Welcome to the first data delivery!

    Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrometer (IUVS) data are stored in time ordered FITS files with supporting documentation -higher order products are in FITS. Coming Soon!

    SupraThermal and Thermal Ion Composition (STATIC) data are stored in time ordered simple CSV tables with supporting documentation; this link directs you to the STATIC archive housed within PDS' Planetary Plasmas Interactions Node located at the University of California Los Angeles/(UCLA)

    Solar Energetic particles (SEP) data are stored in time ordered simple CSV tables with supporting documentation; this link directs you to the SEP archive housed within PDS' Planetary Plasmas Interactions Node located at the University of California Los Angeles/(UCLA)

    Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (SWEA) data are stored in time ordered simple CSV tables with supporting documentation; this link directs you to the SWEA archive housed within PDS' Planetary Plasmas Interactions Node located at the University of California Los Angeles/(UCLA)

    Solar Wind Ion Analyzer (SWIA) data are stored in time ordered simple CSV tables with supporting documentation; this link directs you to the SWIA archive housed within PDS' Planetary Plasmas Interactions Node located at the University of California Los Angeles/(UCLA)

    Langmuir Probe and Waves (LPW) data are stored in time ordered simple CSV tables with supporting documentation; this link directs you to the LPW archive housed within PDS' Planetary Plasmas Interactions Node located at the University of California Los Angeles/(UCLA)

    Langmuir Probe and Waves EUV Monitor (EUV) data are stored in time ordered simple CSV tables with supporting documentation; this link directs you to the EUV archive housed within PDS' Planetary Plasmas Interactions Node located at the University of California Los Angeles/(UCLA)

    Magnetometer (MAG) data are stored in time ordered ASCII tables with supporting documentation; this link directs you to the MAG archive housed within PDS' Planetary Plasmas Interactions Node located at the University of California Los Angeles/(UCLA)

    Accelerometer (ACC) The data from the MAVEN accelerometers will be utilized by a small team to derive atmospheric parameters during periods of near-periapse time ordered ASCII tables with supporting documentation. Coming Soon!

    Ancillary Data (ANC) this link directs you to the ANC archive housed within PDS' Planetary Plasmas Interactions Node located at the University of California Los Angeles/(UCLA)