• •NASA officially ended operations for the MAVEN spacecraft after 10 years of data collection at Mars.
• •The mission provided evidence on how solar wind stripped away the Martian atmosphere and surface water.
• •Data from the final phase of the mission is currently being processed, with exact details of the probe's final status to be clarified in today's media call.

NASA has officially concluded the MAVEN mission, marking the end of a decade-long study into the evolution of the Martian atmosphere. Since 2014, the spacecraft has orbited the planet to map the loss of gases to space, helping researchers reconstruct how Mars transitioned from a potentially habitable world to a cold, arid environment. While the primary mission objectives are complete, uncertainty remains regarding the extent of the final datasets collected during the spacecraft's terminal descent maneuvers. Whether these final measurements provide a conclusive timeline for the planet's atmospheric collapse will depend on the upcoming release of legacy data.