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  • Released Tuesday, October 14, 2014
  • Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:35PM
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MAVEN is investigating atmospheric loss on Mars by observing how the thin upper atmosphere interacts with the sun and the solar wind.

MAVEN is investigating atmospheric loss on Mars by observing how the thin upper atmosphere interacts with the sun and the solar wind.

Mars’ surface (red) and the distributions of two gases being lost from its atmosphere—hydrogen (blue), atomic oxygen (green)—as seen by MAVEN.

Mars’ surface (red) and the distributions of two gases being lost from its atmosphere—hydrogen (blue), atomic oxygen (green)—as seen by MAVEN.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
MAVEN Mars images courtesy of NASA/University of Colarado/Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics



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