Mars Express Overview

Mars Express OMEGA-HRSC Data Workshop

Tommy Thompson
Mars Express/NASA Project Manager

May 21, 2008

Extended Mission Science Review

 Project Overview

Mars Express/ NASA Project

Salient Features
• Orbiter supplied by ESA
• Seven Instruments from five countries and U.S.
• Radar Sounder by U.S. and Italy is new
• Launched on June 2, 2003, Arrived December 25, 2003
• ESA Prime Mission was 1 Mars Year to 11/30/05 (FY’06)
• ESA Extended Mission approved 2/23/07 for a 2nd
Mission cycle to continue operations thru May 2009
• ESTEC proposal for operations thru 2011 in spring of
2008; decision in November 2008
NASA/JPL Contributions to Mars Express
• MARSIS Instrument: Radar Sounder MARSIS Managed by JPL with Antenna, Transmitter
and RF Subsystems furnished by U.S. (Joint 50-50 effort with Italians) – Done
• Science: 28 U.S. Investigators on Eight European Experiments – On-going
• DSN Tracking Support: Additional Downlink, Radio Science – On-going
• Telecom Interoperability: MER-MEX Relay Demos – Done
• Navigation Assurance: Joint ESOC-JPL Navigation in Earth-Mars Cruise – Done

• Aspera-3: Electron/Ion Spectrometers funded by Discovery - Not part of JPL Project

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 Mars Express Experiments

• Surface and subsurface

– HRSC – High resolution stereo camera (G. Neukum, FUB/DLR)
– OMEGA – IR mineralogical mapper (JP. Bibring, IAS-Orsay)
– MARSIS – Subsurface sounding radar (G. Picardi, Univ. Rome)
• Atmosphere and environment
– PFS – Planetary Fourier spectrometer (V. Formisano, CNR-
Frascati)
– SPICAM – UV & IR spectrometer (JL. Bertaux, CNRS-Verrières)
– ASPERA – Energetic neutral atom analyser (R. Lundin, IRF-Kiruna)
• Radio science
– MaRS – Radio science experiment (M. Pätzold, Univ. Köln)

HRSC OMEGA MARSIS PFS SPICAM

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 Mars Express Mission Experiments and Investigators

Country Experiment U. S. Hardware PI Co-PI U. S. Investigators

Italy/U. S. MARSIS JPL and University of Iowa Prof. G. Picardi, University of Jeff Plaut, JPL Gurnett, Univ. of Iowa, Co-I
Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface provided the RF Subsystem Rome Stofan, Proxemy, Co-I
and Ionospheric Sounding (Transmitter, Receiver and Clifford, LPI (PS)
Antenna) Farrell, GSFC (PS)
Leuschen, APL (PS)
Phillips, Wash-U. (PS)
Watters, Smithsonian (PS)
Safaenilli, JPL (IS)
Ivanov and Huff (TMs)
Italy PFS Dr. V. Formisano, Instituto Atreya, Univ. of Michigan, Co-I
Planetary Fourier Spectrometer Fisica Spazio Interplanetario
Germany HRSC Prof. Dr. C. G. Neukum, Freie Carr, USGS, Co-I
High Resolution Stereo Camera Universitaet, Berlin Kirk, USGS, Co-I
Duxbury, JPL, Co-I (IDS)
Greeley, ASU, Co-I
Head, Brown, Co-I
McCord, SSI, Co-I
Squyres, Cornell, Co-I
Chapman, USGS, Assoc.
Hartmann, PSI, Assoc.
Wilson, Assoc.
Germany MaRS Prof. Dr. M. Paetzold, Tyler, Stanford Univ., Co-I
Radio Science Experiment University of Cologne Simpson, Stanford (TM)
Hinson, Stanford (TM)
Asmar, JPL (IS)
France SPICAM Prof. Dr. J. L. Bertaux, Sandel, UAZ, Co-I
Spectroscopic Investigation of the Service d’Aeronomy, Retherford, SwRI, Co-I
Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Verrieres-le-Buisson
Mars
OMEGA Jean-Pierre Bibring, IAS Arvidson, Wash U, Collaborator
Observatory of Mineralogy, Water, Ice Laboratory Mustard, Brown, Collaborator
and Activity Morris, JSC, Collaborator
Sweden ASPERA-3 Discovery Program Prof. Dr. R. Lundin, Swedish ELS PI is Curtis, UAZ, Co-I
Analyser of Space Plasmas and Provides Electron Institute of Space Physics D. Winningham of Frahm, SwRI, Co-I
Energetic Atoms, v.3 Spectrometer (ELS) and SwRI Hseih, UAZ, Co-I
Portions of the Ion Mass Kozyra, Univ. of Michigan, Co-I
Analyzer Luhmann, UC Berkeley, Co-I
Roelof, JHU, Co-I
Sandel, UAZ, Co-I
Scharber, SwRI, Co-I
Williams, JHU, Co-I
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 Mars Express/NASA Project Schedule

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 Mars Express Orbit Geometry through July 2011

2008 2009 2010 2011

40-minutes
Solar eclipse

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 PDS Submission Statistics (May 2008)

• ASPERA - 13 Nov. 2003 - 31 Dec. 2006

• HRSC - 10 Jan. 2004 - 30 June 2007 (Orbits 10 through 4479)
(plus new DTM’s)
• MaRS (Radio Science) - 29 June 2003 - 31 Dec. 2005
• MARSIS - None - Currently in review - Expect mid-2008
• OMEGA - 19 Feb. 2003 - 8 July 2005 (Cruise through orbit 1899)
• PFS - None - Currently in review - Expect mid-2008
• SPICAM - IR: 3 July 2003 - 19 Dec 2004 (Cruise through orbit 1183)
UV: 3 July 2003 - 6 Jun 2005 (Cruise through orbit 1784)

Mars Express PDS site is at:

http://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/mars_express/index.htm

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