A little more than a decade ago, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft entered orbit around Mars on Sept. 21, 2014, beginning its ongoing exploration of the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere, ionosphere and induced magnetosphere. The mission has produced a wealth of data about how Mars' atmosphere responds to the Sun and the solar wind, and how these interactions can explain the loss of the Martian atmosphere to space. Today, MAVEN continues to make exciting new discoveries about the Red Planet that increase our understanding of how atmospheric evolution affected Mars' climate and the previous presence of liquid water on its surface, potentially determining its prior habitability. Some of the major results obtained during this last decade will be reviewed.

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