Cara Santa Maria

It's the end of a very productive chapter in Mars' science because NASA says the mission produced more than 800 publications in the archive data.

You know, it's going to be used for years.

The cool point here is that MAVEN sent more data back from Mars than any other of the satellites.

And it has a record of sending the most data in a single 24-hour period.

So it was doing a lot of heavy lifting for that effort to send data back to NASA and to the scientists on Earth.

So losing it kind of sucks because that array that's out there is not going to be able to send back as much data.

So, yeah, so bottom line here is that, you know, we do have a much better understanding of what happened to Mars.

And it's not, you know, nothing weird happened.

It's all very, you know, understandable.

Mars was like Earth.

You know, how cool would it have been if there was just another planet in our solar system that had water and an atmosphere and all that?

Just think about that.

Imagine if we had that right now.

Yeah, but then they would have invaded us and taken over.

It would have been bad.

Now, if Mars was bigger...

It would have had a stronger magnetic field, right?

And it probably would have been able to hold on to its atmosphere.

Maybe.

Possibly.