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The MAVEN Radio Occultation Science Experiment (ROSE)

Planetary radio occultation is a remote measurement technique which relies on a particular configuration of the system, where the radio signal passes close to the solar system object of interest while travelling from the transmitter to the receiver; counts on the transmission of a radio signal such that it passes close to a solar system object (the “target object”) during its journey from the transmitter to the receiver. tThe application of this technique to planetary science has been described by several authors (e.g. Phinney and Anderson,1968; Fjeldbo et al.,1971; Klioreetal.,2004; Withers, 2010).

At Mars, the MAVEN Radio Occultation Science Experiment (ROSE) - recent addition to MAVEN's scientific investigations - is a recent addition to MAVEN's suite of scientific investigations that uses the spacecraft's existing radio communications system, and aimsim is to determine the vertical structure and properties of plasma in the ionosphere using the spacecraft's existing radio communications system. The first ionospheric results from MAVEN ROSE have recently been published.