MAVEN STATIC: Mars Orbiter Ion Event Rates Summed Per Spin

MAVEN STATIC instrument data provides time-ordered event rates summed over a single spacecraft spin. The data originates from the Supra-Thermal And Thermal Ion Composition instrument aboard NASA's MAVEN orbiter. The collection is maintained by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and was last updated on March 13, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling Mars's atmospheric escape based on ion composition data.
• Analyzing solar wind interaction with the Martian magnetosphere based on energetic particle measurements.
• Calibrating or validating space plasma instrument models based on the STATIC instrument methodology.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from a documented NASA instrument with a published instrument paper.
• The collection is actively maintained, with a last update timestamp of 2026-03-13.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Data are derived from APID d8 from the MAVEN STATIC instrument.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 06:04:38.754067

Geography

Mars orbit