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Exploring Mars: Mars Express Project Overview

Learn about the Mars Express mission, its instruments, key dates, and contributions from NASA/JPL, with a focus on OMEGA-HRSC data. Planetary exploration at its finest!

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Exploring Mars: Mars Express Project Overview

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  1. Mars Express OverviewMars Express OMEGA-HRSC Data Workshop Tommy Thompson Mars Express/NASA Project ManagerMay 21, 2008

  2. 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

  3. 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 Mars Express / NASA Project – PPBE/POP 2008

  4. Mars Express Mission Experiments and Investigators

  5. Mars Express/NASA Project Schedule

  6. Mars Express Orbit Geometry through July 2011 2008 2009 2010 2011 40-minutes Solar eclipse

  7. 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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