{"id":33518,"date":"2014-09-23T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=33518"},"modified":"2014-09-25T09:44:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T13:44:56","slug":"mars-mission-science-team-includes-wright-state-professor-ohiolink-patron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/09\/23\/mars-mission-science-team-includes-wright-state-professor-ohiolink-patron\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars mission science team includes Wright State professor, OhioLINK patron"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26905\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/01\/17\/mars-rover-manager-scott-lever-to-speak-at-wright-state-jan-23\/jane-fox-rlb_5168\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26905\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26905\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26905\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/01\/Jane-Fox-RLB_5168-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Fox, research professor in the Department of Physics, will research data that the MAVEN spacecraft collects on Mars.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wright State University Research Professor Jane L. Fox, Ph.D., is waiting eagerly for MAVEN\u2014short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN\u2014to swing gently into the orbit of Mars. A faculty member since 1995, Fox has been studying planetary atmospheres since the 1970s. Her computer models have helped explain the observed particle behavior in the ionospheres of Mars and Venus, and frame questions for subsequent missions, including MAVEN\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Along the way, Wright State and OhioLINK together provide Fox with the materials she needs for this reading-intensive research.<\/p>\n<p>MAVEN is expected to enter Mars\u2019 atmosphere on Sept. 21, 2014, Eastern Standard Time, 10 months after launching. However, the ordinarily risky orbit entry is further complicated by a comet\u2019s expected trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 100 people working on the mission will celebrate a great triumph when MAVEN safely enters orbit,\u201d Fox said.\u00a0 Team members hail from the University of Colorado Boulder\/Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the University of California, Berkeley\/Space Sciences Laboratory, and NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiolink.edu\/press\/mars_mission_science_team_includes_ohiolink_patron\">ohiolink.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Wright State University Research Professor Jane L. Fox, Ph.D., is waiting eagerly for MAVEN\u2014short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN\u2014to swing gently into the orbit of Mars. A faculty member since 1995, Fox has been studying planetary atmospheres since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/09\/23\/mars-mission-science-team-includes-wright-state-professor-ohiolink-patron\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":16255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2065,746,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics","category-science-mathematics","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33518"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33541,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33518\/revisions\/33541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}