MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

BepiColombo
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Mars Express
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)
Solar Orbiter
Space Weather
STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory)
April 17, 2021, was a day like any other day on the Sun, until a brilliant flash erupted and an enormous cloud of solar material billowed away from our star. Such outbursts from the Sun are not unusual, but this one was unusually widespread, hurling high-speed protons and electrons at velocities nearing the speed of […]
Posted March 4, 2024
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Mars
Solar Wind
Space Weather
The Solar System
The Sun
In December 2022, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission observed the dramatic and unexpected “disappearance” of a stream of charged particles constantly emanating off the Sun, known as the solar wind. This was caused by a special type of solar event that was so powerful, it created a void in its wake as […]
Posted December 11, 2023
Mars
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars 2020
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)
Perseverance (Rover)
The Solar System
Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet. NASA will hold off sending commands to its Mars fleet for two weeks, from Nov. 11 to 25, while Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the […]
Posted November 10, 2023
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