MAVEN findings add a missing piece to Mars atmosphere puzzle

Big things have small beginnings. The latest findings of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft have clued in researchers to the nature of Mars’s upper atmosphere, a lesser-known area in the mystery of the Red Planet. Thanks to this new research, scientists are honing in on the atoms, ions, and molecules that Mars’s atmosphere is losing to space. They’re also coming to understand how the planet’s wind circulation relates to changes in temperature. All these little details could have major impacts on our understanding of E