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[ Spanish ] My name is Sandra Cauffman, and I work for the MAVEN project at Goddard Space Flight Center.

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MAVEN is a mission that studies the upper atmosphere of Mars, the Red Planet, the ionosphere, and the interactions with the Sun and the solar wind.

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Scientists want to study how the Martian atmosphere has lost its volatile gasses to space, and see how this could have impacted life on Mars.

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One of the instruments that Goddard is producing is called NGIMS.

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This will measure the chemical composition of the Martian atmosphere, and the magnetometer will try to measure the magnetic field.

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In the history of Mars, we know that Mars lost its magnetic field, there isn't a magnetic field like there is on Earth.

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The atmosphere of Mars is very scarce as well, and NGIMS will measure what gases are present and at what concentrations.

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My job is to gather necessary information for the Project Director, in all aspects of the mission.

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I'm helping to help make sure that the mission is completed on time.

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The launch is in November 2013.  If we don't launch, we'll have to wait twenty-six months for another opportunity to do so.

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My day is busy, very, very busy.  I read many reports, attend many meetings, write presentations, write papers, respond to emails.

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There is a lot to do, and sometimes I can't catch up with everything in a single day because there is so much!

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There's not a day that I get up when I don't want to go to work.  I like the people that I work with, I like the mission, I like everything that we do.

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From studying the Earth, to studying the cosmos, to studying the universe, and now I get to work on a mission that will go to study Mars.

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All of the experiences that I've had at NASA have been fabulous, and I'll take them with me for the rest of my life.