P12A:
Results from the MAVEN Mission to Mars I


Session ID#: 10389

Session Description:
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission went into orbit at Mars in September, 2014.  Its one-Earth-year primary mission will have been completed in November, 2015.  The goal of MAVEN is to understand the structure and composition of the Mars upper atmosphere and ionosphere, the nature of interactions with the solar wind, the current rate of escape of gases to space, and the role played by the solar and solar-wind drivers.  These results will allow us to understand the role played by escape of gas to space in the changes in the Mars climate inferred to have taken place through time.  Preliminary results from the primary mission will be presented.
Primary Convener:  Bruce Martin Jakosky, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES
Conveners:  Janet G Luhmann, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Joseph M Grebowsky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Joseph M Grebowsky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Robert J Lillis, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  David Brain, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5421 Interactions with particles and fields [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5435 Ionospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5443 Magnetospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Results From the MAVEN Mission to Mars (63815)
Bruce Martin Jakosky, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES
Martian-Solar Wind Interaction Boundaries as Observed by MAVEN (75113)
Jacob Gruesbeck1,2, Jared R Espley2, John E P Connerney2, Gina A DiBraccio3 and Yasir Ibn Jilani Soobiah3, (1)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Evidence of Ion Heating at Low Altitudes in the Dayside Ionosphere at Mars (72987)
Christopher M Fowler1, Laila Andersson2, Robert Ergun3, James P McFadden4, Dr. Takuya Hara5, Jared R Espley6, John E P Connerney6, Jasper S Halekas7, Mehdi Benna8, David L Mitchell9, Christian Xavier Mazelle10, Anders I Eriksson11, David J Andrews11, Adam K Woodson12, Michiko W Morooka13, Gregory T Delory14, Tristan David Weber2 and Tiffany Chamandy15, (1)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, (4)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (8)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Space Sciences and Technology, Baltimore, United States, (9)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (11)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (12)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (13)LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (14)Heliospace Corp., Berkeley, CA, United States, (15)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
STRUCTURE OF THE MARTIAN IONOSPHERE: OBSERVATIONS OF SUPRATHERMAL ELECTRONS BY MAVEN SWEA (85358)
David L Mitchell1, Matthew O. Fillingim2, Robert J Lillis3, Christian Xavier Mazelle4, Morgane Steckiewicz4, James P McFadden5, John E P Connerney6, Laila Andersson7, Janet G Luhmann5 and Bruce Martin Jakosky8, (1)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (5)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
The Hot Oxygen Corona of Mars: Observations by MAVEN IUVS (86426)
Justin Deighan1, Michael Chaffin2, Jean-Yves Chaufray3, Nicholas McCord Schneider1, Sonal Jain4, Arnaud Stiepen4, Matteo Michael James Crismani5, John T Clarke6, Ian F Stewart4, William E McClintock4, Gregory M Holsclaw7, Franck Montmessin8, Ed Thiemann4, Phillip C Chamberlin9, Bruce Martin Jakosky7 and Dr. Francis Gerard Eparvier, Ph.D.4, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)LATMOS/IPSL, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Université, Guyancourt, France, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)California State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Bernardino, United States, (6)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (7)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Laboratoire Atmosphères, Observations Spatiales, IPSL, CNRS, UVSQ, Sorbonne Université, Guyancourt, France, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Oxygen Pickup Ions Measured by MAVEN Outside the Martian Bow Shock (62854)
Ali Rahmati1, Thomas Cravens2, Davin E Larson3, Robert J Lillis3, Patrick A Dunn4, Jasper S Halekas5, John E P Connerney6, Dr. Francis Gerard Eparvier, Ph.D.7, Edward Thiemann8, David L Mitchell9, Bruce Martin Jakosky10 and The MAVEN Team, (1)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Physics and Astronomy, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (6)Space Research Corporation, Annapolis, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (8)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (9)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (10)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES
Solar Energetic Particle Events Observed by MAVEN (74990)
Christina O Lee1, Davin E Larson2, Robert J Lillis3, Janet G Luhmann1, Jasper S Halekas4,5, Dave A Brain6, John E P Connerney7, Jared R Espley7, Dr. Francis Gerard Eparvier, Ph.D.8, Ed Thiemann9, Cary Zeitlin10 and Bruce Martin Jakosky11, (1)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (2)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (5)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (8)LASP, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (11)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Ion Heating and Magnetotail Losses at the Martian Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Interface (64029)
James P McFadden1, Roberto Livi2, Janet G Luhmann1, John E P Connerney3, David L Mitchell2, Christian Xavier Mazelle4, Laila Andersson5 and Bruce Martin Jakosky6, (1)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

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