1. Extended Mission Science Review Mars Express Overview Mars Express OMEGA-HRSC Data Workshop Tommy Thompson Mars Express/NASA Project Manager May 21, 2008

2. Mars Express Overview 2 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 Project Overview

3. Mars Express Overview 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) HRSCOMEGAMARSISPFSSPICAM Mars Express / NASA Project – PPBE/POP 2008

4. Mars Express Overview 4 Mars Express Mission Experiments and Investigators

5. Mars Express Overview 5 Mars Express/NASA Project Schedule

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

7. Mars Express Overview 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