NASA wants to search a Mars moon for signs of the planet’s atmosphere – BGR

• Mars used to have a thick, robust atmosphere, or at least that’s what scientists think they know about the history of the Red Planet.
• Solar wind — the outflow of particles from the Sun — is thought to have stripped away the planet’s atmosphere over the course of hundreds of millions or even billions of years. 
• New research suggests that while the vast majority of Mars’ atmosphere was lost to space, some of the particles may have ended up on the surface of the Martian moon Phobos.

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