MAVEN Mars Orbital Insertion and Instrument Deploys

  • Released Thursday, September 18, 2014
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These animations depict MAVEN's arrival at Mars on September 21, 2014, and the ensuing science instrument deployments. The animations begin with MAVEN's orbital insertion engine burn near the Martian north pole. The deployments include MAVEN's LPW, SWEA and APP instruments.

Beauty pass of MAVEN at Mars

MAVEN slews for orbit insertion burn

MAVEN approaching Mars

MAVEN firing main thrusters at Mars

MAVEN main thrusters firing at Mars

MAVEN LPW deploy

MAVEN SWEA deploy

Wide shot of MAVEN APP deploy

Closeup of APP deploy

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Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

This page was originally published on Thursday, September 18, 2014.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:50 PM EDT.

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