Authors
Bruce M Jakosky, Robert P Lin, Joseph M Grebowsky, Janet G Luhmann, DF Mitchell, G Beutelschies, T Priser, M Acuna, L Andersson, D Baird, D Baker, R Bartlett, M Benna, S Bougher, D Brain, D Carson, S Cauffman, P Chamberlin, J-Y Chaufray, O Cheatom, J Clarke, J Connerney, T Cravens, D Curtis, G Delory, S Demcak, A DeWolfe, F Eparvier, R Ergun, Anders Eriksson, J Espley, X Fang, D Folta, J Fox, C Gomez-Rosa, S Habenicht, J Halekas, G Holsclaw, M Houghton, R Howard, M Jarosz, N Jedrich, M Johnson, W Kasprzak, M Kelley, T King, M Lankton, D Larson, François Leblanc, Franck Lefèvre, R Lillis, P Mahaffy, Christian Mazelle, W McClintock, J McFadden, DL Mitchell, Franck Montmessin, J Morrissey, W Peterson, W Possel, J-A Sauvaud, N Schneider, W Sidney, S Sparacino, AIF Stewart, R Tolson, Dominique Toublanc, C Waters, T Woods, R Yelle, R Zurek
Publication date
2015/12
Source
Space Science Reviews
Volume
195
Pages
3-48
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Description
The MAVEN spacecraft launched in November 2013, arrived at Mars in September 2014, and completed commissioning and began its one-Earth-year primary science mission in November 2014. The orbiter’s science objectives are to explore the interactions of the Sun and the solar wind with the Mars magnetosphere and upper atmosphere, to determine the structure of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere and the processes controlling it, to determine the escape rates from the upper atmosphere to space at the present epoch, and to measure properties that allow us to extrapolate these escape rates into the past to determine the total loss of atmospheric gas to space through time. These results will allow us to determine the importance of loss to space in changing the Mars climate and atmosphere through time, thereby providing important boundary conditions on the history of the habitability of Mars. The …
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