MAVEN Science Spotlights
Skip to year:
NASA’s MAVEN science highlights at AGU 2022
A guide to notable research from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission being presented at the hybrid Dec. 12-16 American Geophysical Union 2022 meeting.
(Read more»)
Teamwork, dream work: MAVEN and JWST observe Mars at different wavelengths
NASA’s MAVEN mission made a comparable observation of Mars to JWST’s first image of the Red Planet.
(Read more»)
Two heads are better than one: The LPW and ROSE comparison
“Two heads are better than one” is commonly said, but what about two instruments? In this Publication Highlight, MAVEN scientists compare the instruments LPW & ROSE to check whether the electron densities that they measured in the ionosphere of Mars are accurate.
(Read more»)
Happy Coincidences: Learning about Mars using Scorpius X-1
Dr. Ali Rahmati, a research physicist at the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley, realized that MAVEN’s Solar Energic Particle (SEP) detector, an instrument built to detect particles from the Sun, could also detect X-rays from outside our solar system. Rahmati, along with the members of the SEP team, quickly realized that these X-rays, which were emanating from the binary system Scorpius X-1—a system consisting of a neutron star and a blue star about 9,000 light years from Earth—could be used to learn more about Mars.
(Read more»)
Hanley et al. and the Case of the Hot Ions
The MAVEN team is conducting exciting, new scientific research every day! Each month, we’ll be highlighting an interesting paper in a jargon-free format. This month, we looked at “In Situ Measurements of Thermal Ion Temperature in the Martian Ionosphere”, which Gwen Hanley and colleagues published in JGR Space Physics in December 2021.
(Read more»)
