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CU Remote Sensing Instrument Package Set for Integration on Mars Spacecraft
...lead IUVS scientist for MAVEN. “Ultraviolet light is especially diagnostic of the state of the atmosphere, so our instrument provides the global context of the whole atmosphere for the local...
MAVEN’s Three-week Launch Window Starts Nov. 18
...water went and what happened to the atmosphere.” The top of the Martian atmosphere is the conduit through which all of the gases have to pass on their way...
CU-Boulder-led Mars Mission Set for Orbit Insertion Sept. 21
...from the spacecraft, known as the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN mission. The thruster engines will ignite and burn for 33 minutes to slow the spacecraft, allowing it...
CU-led MAVEN Mission Spacecraft Arrives at Florida Launch Site
...We want to know how the climate changed, where the water went and what happened to the atmosphere.” The top of the Martian atmosphere is the conduit through which...
NASA Invites Public to Send Names and Messages to Mars
...upper atmosphere. Scheduled for launch in November, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft will carry the DVD. The DVD is part of the mission's Going to Mars Campaign coordinated...
Readying for Lift Off: CU-led MAVEN Mission Engages the Public as Excitement Builds for Satellite Launch
...just beginning to take off. The classmates were honored as part of NASA’s outreach effort to engage the public in the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft mission. LASP...
CU-Boulder Students, Faculty Primed for July 14 Pluto Encounter
...Directorate in Boulder. Bagenal, a faculty member in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and LASP affiliate, said the interactions of the solar wind with Pluto’s tenuous atmosphere,...
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to Visit CU-Boulder April 18
...into Mars orbit in September to begin gathering data about how the planet’s climate changed, where its water went and what happened to its atmosphere during the past several billion...
NASA’s Next Mars Mission Invites Public to Come Aboard
...the “Going to Mars” campaign. The campaign is led on behalf of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN mission, by the University of Colorado Boulder. Starting today, an...
Mission to Mars: CU-Boulder Scientists to Lead Mars-Focused Public Programs on Feb. 13 and 14
...volcanoes, canyons and polar caps, sand dunes and dust devils. But Mars is an incredibly inhospitable place today, with a thin, cold atmosphere incapable of supporting liquid water at the...