MAVEN Magnetometer
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- Visualizations by:
- Chris Smith
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When you navigate with a compass you can orient yourself thanks to Earth's global magnetic field. But on Mars, if you were to walk around with a compass it would haphazardly point from one anomaly to another, because the Red Planet does not possess a global magnetosphere. Scientists think that this lack of a protective magnetic field may have allowed the solar wind to strip away the Martian atmosphere over billions of years, and now NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will study this process in detail with its pair of ring core fluxgate magnetometers.
MAVEN's dual magnetometers will allow scientists to study the interaction between the solar wind and the Martian atmosphere, giving us a better understanding of how Mars has evolved from a warm, wet climate to the cold, arid one we see today.
Watch this video on the NASAexplorer YouTube channel.
For complete transcript, click here.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Chris Smith (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Michael Lentz (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Video editors
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Michael Randazzo (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Interviewees
- Jared Espley (NASA/GSFC)
- John Connerney (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Videographer
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Project support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Series
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This visualization originally appeared on the following tapes:-
MAVEN Magnetometer
(ID: 2012127)
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 4:00AM
Produced by - Dan Jacob
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