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and Curiosity--that emergency funding was authorized to continue spacecraft processing in preparation for an on-time launch.

Objectives

The MAVEN mission's primary scientific objectives were:
* Measure the composition and structure of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere, and determine the processes responsible for controlling them
* Measure the rate of loss of gas from the top of the atmosphere to space, and determine the processes responsible for controlling them
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