Length1h 44m
About this audiobook
Mars was not always a desert. Its dry river deltas, lake beds, and shorelines record a world that was once warm enough for flowing water, and the difference between that world and the cold, thin-aired planet of today is an atmosphere that went missing. MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, was the first spacecraft sent to another planet for the sole purpose of watching a planet lose its air. This book tells the story of the mission and the answer it found: Mars, stripped of its global magnetic field four billion years ago, stands naked in the solar wind, and the young Sun stripped its thick carbon dioxide blanket into space storm by storm, taking the water with it a hundred grams at a time.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1: The Science Goals of MAVEN
3Chapter 2: The MAVEN Spacecraft
4Chapter 3: The Launch and Journey to Mars
5Chapter 4: The Upper Atmosphere of Mars
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6Chapter 5: The Solar Wind and Atmospheric Escape
7Chapter 6: The History of Water on Mars
8Chapter 7: Mars' Changing Climate
9Chapter 8: The Aurora on Mars
10Chapter 9: The Magnetic Field of Mars
11Chapter 10: Dust in the Martian Atmosphere
12Chapter 11: The Moons of Mars - Phobos and Deimos
13Chapter 12: Fun Facts and Trivia About MAVEN
14Chapter 13: The Future of Mars Exploration
15Chapter 14: The Comet's Gift - Siding Spring at Mars
16Chapter 15: Deep Dips - Sampling the Escape Zone Up Close
17Chapter 16: From Drawing Board to Launch Pad - Building MAVEN
18Chapter 17: A Decade of Records - MAVEN's Long Service
19Chapter 18: Conclusion: The Legacy of MAVEN
20Conclusion
21References: MAVEN
22Glossary
23About the Author
24Series Info
25Copyright
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