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MAVEN Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Artist's Conception
Credit: LASP
This artist's conception shows the NASA's MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars. The mission will launch in late 2013.
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MAVEN Arrives at Kennedy Space Center for Launch Processing
Credit: NASA/Tim Jacobs
A crane lifts NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on Aug. 3, 2013, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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MAVEN Science Team Members
Credit: Barbara David
MAVEN science team members are raring to get to Mars. From left to right: Jasper Halekas, Bruce Jakosky, Dave Brain, Rob Lillis, Tess McEnulty ( MAVEN science data team), Joe Grebowsky and Janet Luhmann.
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Red Planet MAVEN: New Probe to Scan Martian Atmosphere
Credit: NASA
Artist's Concept of MAVEN, set to launch in 2013.
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MAVEN Profiling of Mars Upper Atmosphere
Credit: CU-Boulder/LASP/NASA GSFC
“Deep-dip” campaigns during MAVEN’s mission are slated, maneuvers of the spacecraft that will lower its altitude to enable profiling of Mars’ upper atmosphere. MAVEN was built by Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colo. The project is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
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MAVEN Spacecraft Illustration
Credit: Lockheed Martin
This is an artist's conception of the MAVEN spacecraft.
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Maven Studies Mars Atmosphere
Credit: Corby Waste NASA/JPL
Maven is shown studying how Mars loses its atmosphere to space in this artist's illustration.
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Maven Gets Visitors
Credit: Barbara David/SPACE.com
Well-dressed and entering Maven's haven, are, left to right: SPACE.com's Leonard David; Jeff Coyne, Maven assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) manager at Lockheed Martin; and Gary Napier, communications specialist for Lockheed Martin Space Systems.
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Maven in Clean Room
Credit: Leonard David/SPACE.com
NASA's next Mars mission, Maven, is being prepared for its mission within Lockheed Martin's high-bay cleanroom at a facility in Littleton, Colo.
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NASA's Mars MAVEN Spacecraft Being Assembled
Credit: Lockheed Martin
The MAVEN spacecraft's large hydrazine propellant tank is pictured prior to being installed in the core structure of the spacecraft at a Lockheed Martin clean room near Denver.
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Mars MAVEN Spacecraft Construction
Credit: Lockheed Martin
The MAVEN spacecraft's core structure is successfully lowered and attached to the hydrazine propulsion tank and boat tail assembly at Lockheed Martin's facilities in Colorado.
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MAVEN Orbiting Mars
Credit: NASA/GSFC
Artist's conception of MAVEN Mars orbiter.
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Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer
Credit: NASA/GSFC
The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) instrument, shown here at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., before its integration onto NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft.
