MAVEN

SOLAR & HELIOSPHERIC

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission is the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. The mission’s goal is to explore the planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interactions with the Sun and solar wind. Scientists are using MAVEN data to determine the loss rate of water and other gases from the Martian atmosphere to space today and to extrapolate what the loss rate may have been in the past. Understanding atmospheric loss will give scientists insight into the history of Mars’ atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.

The main MAVEN site is at the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric Physics (LASP).

NASA’s Website

PARTNERS

University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Lockheed Martin
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI)

Dr. Shannon Curry, SSL/UCB

TEAM

At SSL: Shannon Curry, Dave Mitchell, Caytyn Abono, Abby Azari, Dave Curtis, Patrick Dunn, Matt Fillingim, Gwen Hanley, Takuya Hara, Davin Larson, Steve Ledvina, Christina Lee, Robert Lillis, Janet Luhmann, Ishita Malik, Melissa Marquette, Jim McFadden, Jim McTiernan, Tony Mercer, Murti Nauth, Ali Rahmati, Shaosui Xu

Full team

MAVEN

SOLAR & HELIOSPHERIC

Space Sciences Laboratory
at the University of California, Berkeley

SSL is not open to the public. Please contact our administrative team at spacesciencesadmins@ssl.berkeley.edu should you need access to our lab.

MAVEN

SOLAR & HELIOSPHERIC

Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley

SSL is not open to the public. Please contact our administrative team at spacesciencesadmins@ssl.berkeley.edu should you need access to our lab.​

Space Sciences Laboratory
at the University of California, Berkeley

SSL is not open to the public. Please contact our administrative team at spacesciencesadmins@ssl.berkeley.edu should you need access to our lab.