MAVEN

NASA’s MAVEN mission investigated the Martian upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interaction with the solar wind, while its communications package relayed data from surface missions. The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder coordinated the science team, science operations and data management, and provided the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph and Langmuir Probe and Waves instruments. The University of California, Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory managed the particles-and-fields package and contributed instruments measuring solar-wind particles and energetic particles. These university teams also co-led education and public outreach.