SAN FRANCISCO — Recent discoveries suggesting that abundant water once flowed on the surface of Mars are heightening anticipation of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, a NASA mission designed to explain what happened to that water, according to MAVEN Principal Investigator Bruce Jakowsky of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Debra Werner is a correspondent for SpaceNews based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient...