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OTD In Space - November 18: NASA Launches MAVEN To Mars

On13, NASA launched the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars. The name MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. The ...
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MaQuIS: Pioneering quantum space exploration to unlock Mars’ interior and atmosphere

Mars, long considered largely static, has revealed a dynamic interior in recent years. NASA’s InSight mission detected ...
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Mars' atmosphere swelled like a balloon when solar wind stopped blowing. Scientists are thrilled

Artist's rendering of a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the planet's upper atmosphere. Mars' atmosphere, once as thick as if not thicker than Earth's today, is leaking into ...

NASA’s latest ESCAPADE is sending twin low-cost orbiters to examine Mars’ atmosphere

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE ...
Newsweek

Mars’ Long-Lost Atmosphere Might Be Hiding in Plain Sight

Mars' missing atmosphere may be locked up in the planet's clay-rich surface, a new study by MIT geologists has suggested. According to the researchers, ancient water trickling through Mars' ...
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First direct evidence of how Mars lost its thick atmosphere and water

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface, billions of years ago.