Breadcrumb Home First results from NASA's MAVEN may offer clues to how Mars lost its water Wednesday, December 17, 2014 International Accents http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/1215/First-results-from-NASA-s-MAVEN-may-… The first data from NASA's MAVEN mission is giving researchers clues about what happened to the water on Mars. UI professor Jasper Halekas is playing a major role in the discovery.