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Exploring the Martian atmosphere with MAVEN!
We know Mars used to be an extremely wet place,
but we look at it today and we see that it's an extremely cold,
dry place, something interesting had to have happened
Maven's main science goal is to try and understand whether
or not the solar wind was able
to erode away the Martian atmosphere.
The solar wind is a gas that comes out from the sun
and could potentially, over billions of years,
blow away the Martian atmosphere one molecule at a time
as it's pushed away into interplanetary space.
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Be sure to tell your teacher
to visit the NASA Explorer Schools Virtual Campus.
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