MAVEN is in orbit around Mars to understand how the Red Planet loses its atmosphere, including its water, to the solar wind.Image Credit: NASA
This computer-generated view based on multiple orbital observations shows Mars' Gale crater as if seen from an aircraft north of the crater.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/UA
An artist's concept of where seven instruments will be located on NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. Image Credit: NASA NASA
The Gravity Assist Podcast is hosted by NASA’s Director of Planetary Science, Jim Green, who each week talks to some of the greatest planetary scientists on the planet, giving a guided tour through the Solar System and beyond in the process. This week, he is joined by the “man about Mars,” Bruce Jakosky from the University of Colorado, who is the principal investigator of NASA’s MAVEN mission, and Michael Meyer, NASA’s lead Mars scientist.
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