MAVEN mission to investigate how sun steals Martian atmosphere

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 20:21 in Astronomy & Space

The Red Planet bleeds. Not blood, but its atmosphere, slowly trickling away to space. The culprit is our sun, which is using its own breath, the solar wind, and its radiation to rob Mars of its air....

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