Maven
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MAVEN is an inactive NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars that studied the loss of its atmospheric gases to space, providing insight into the history of the planet's climate and water. The name is an acronym for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution" while the word maven also denotes "a person who has special knowledge or experience; an expert". MAVEN was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on 18 November 2013 and went into orbit around Mars on 22 September 2014. It was the first NASA mission to study the Mars atmosphere. The probe analyzed the planet's upper atmosphere and ionosphere to examine how and at what rate the solar wind is stripping away volatile compounds. On 6 December 2025, MAVEN lost contact with Earth. Despite recovery efforts at NASA's Deep Space Network, contact could not be re-established as of January 2026. A review board was convened in February 2026, which determined the spacecraft was likely not recoverable. On 3 June 2026, NASA officially declared the spacecraft dead and its mission concluded. The principal investigator for the mission was Shannon Curry at the University of California, Berkeley. She took over from Bruce Jakosky of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, who proposed and led the mission until 2021.…
A maven is an expert. A Yiddish word, deriving from the modern Hebrew conjugation of the verb "lehavin" in its 3rd person singular in the present tense (masculine) – "mevin" (מֵבִין) – which means "to understand, to comprehend". The term may also refer to:
Science and technology
Apache Maven, a software tool for build automation, primarily in Java MAVEN, an orbiter mission to Mars Maven (Scrabble), a Scrabble-playing algorithm Project Maven, a US Department of Defense project using artificial intelligence for drone targeting
Other uses
Maven (car sharing), a former carsharing service of General Motors Maven Networks, a multimedia company acquired by Yahoo! Mitsubishi Maven, a rebadged Suzuki APV minivan sold in Indonesia from 2005 to 2009
People
Fred Mavin or Maven (1884–1957), English football player and manager Maven (wrestler) (born 19761), American professional wrestler Maven Maurer (born 1975), Canadian former professional football player Max Maven (1950–2022), American magician and mentalist Ryan Clark (musician), American metal singer
See also
Mavin (disambiguation)
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