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Dr. Shannon Curry has assumed leadership of NASA's first mission devoted to studying the Martian atmosphere. READ MORE

By combining observations from three international spacecraft at Mars, scientists were able to show that regional dust storms play a huge role in drying out the Red Planet. READ MORE

The Martian moon Phobos orbits through a stream of charged atoms and molecules that flow off the Red Planet's atmosphere, new research shows. READ MORE

An instrument on NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has discovered that water vapor near the Martian surface is lofted higher than expected into the atmosphere. MORE