How the loss of Mars' atmosphere shaped its watery history
In short: This episode of This Week @NASA follows the MAVEN spacecraft on its ten-month journey from Florida to Mars to study the planet's upper atmosphere.
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission aims to investigate how the escape of the Martian atmosphere into space has influenced the history of water on the planet's surface. To perform these vital readings, the vessel departed Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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