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NASA's real-time portal for Mars exploration, featuring the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet... The field of Astrobiology saw a resurgence due to the controversy surrounding the possible fossil life in the ALH84001 meteorite, and from the outsized public response to this announcement, and subsequent interest from Congress and the White House, NASA's Astrobiology Program was formed... Scientists think that Mars may have had a thicker atmosphere early in its history, and data from NASA spacecraft (the MAVEN mission) indicate that Mars has lost significant amounts of its atmosphere through time. The primary culprit for Mars' atmospheric loss is the solar wind!

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