MAVEN Status and Extended-Mission Planning thru 2018

NASA / GSFC MAVEN at Mars
NASA / GSFC
MAVEN at Mars

The MAVEN mission to Mars completed its one-Earth-year primary mission in November 2015, is in the middle of its first (relatively short) extended mission that runs through September 2016, and was just approved for a two-year extended mission that runs through September 2018. Now is a good time to take stock of we’ve learned so far and to describe our plans for the extended mission.
‪#‎MAVEN‬ principal investigator Bruce Jakosky has written a very nice summary of the mission results to-date and offers unique insight into what new observations to expect during the two-year extended mission that runs through September 2018.
The article appears as a “guest blog” on The Planetary Society web site: