MAVEN: Cruise Phase
-
- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah
- View full credits
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission (MAVEN) spacecraft was launched on a 10 month journey to Mars on November 18, 2013. MAVEN is expected to arrive in Mars orbit on Sept 21, 2014 EDT. MAVEN's mission is to investigate the upper atmosphere of Mars and its interactions with the Sun and solar wind. This will help scientists understand why Mars lost many volatile molecules form its atmosphere such as CO2, N2, and H2O.
These visualizations show the path has taken from Earth to Mars. There is a wide view from above the ecliptic plane and a view that slowly tilts down to about 45 degrees above the ecliptic plane.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
-
Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
-
Scientists
- Bruce Jakosky (LASP)
- David Folta (NASA/GSFC)
-
Producer
- Dan Gallagher (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
-
Project support
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
GSFC Flight Dynamics Facility Ephemeris
DE421 (A.K.A. JPL DE421)
Planetary ephemerides
Dataset can be found at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ephemerides#planets
See more visualizations using this data setNote: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.