{"id":196874,"date":"2024-10-01T15:22:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/how-the-maven-spacecraft-led-by-cu-boulder-could-help-pave-the-way-for-human-exploration-on-mars"},"modified":"2024-10-01T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:22:26","slug":"how-the-maven-spacecraft-led-by-cu-boulder-could-help-pave-the-way-for-human-exploration-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/how-the-maven-spacecraft-led-by-cu-boulder-could-help-pave-the-way-for-human-exploration-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"How the MAVEN spacecraft \u2014 led by CU Boulder \u2014 could help pave the way for human exploration on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-the-maven-spacecraft-led-by-cu-boulder-could-help-pave-the-way-for-human-exploration-on-mars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr Shannon Curry said she believes humans will first land on Mars \u2014 at the earliest \u2014 in 2040, but more realistically 2050. And 2075 before Mars colonization! Very realistic prediction, and I enthusiastically agree.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA\u2019s MAVEN spacecraft, led by scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder, was supposed to operate for one year when it entered orbit on September 21, 2014. Ten years later, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution orbiter has been a boon to scientists studying the red planet and they hope it will remain in operation for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>In May, MAVEN researchers got to watch as a huge solar storm hit the planet along with a massive dose of radiation. The MAVEN spacecraft is an orbiter, so it won\u2019t ever land on the surface of Mars like the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers. Instead, it\u2019s designed to examine the Martian atmosphere, which principal investigator Shannon Curry said \u201cholds a number of secrets in terms of our past, present, and future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here are some takeaways from Curry\u2019s interview with Colorado Matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Shannon Curry said she believes humans will first land on Mars \u2014 at the earliest \u2014 in 2040, but more realistically 2050. And 2075 before Mars colonization! Very realistic prediction, and I enthusiastically agree. NASA\u2019s MAVEN spacecraft, led by scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder, was supposed to operate for one year when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}