The surface of Mars, when compared with its past, might have habitable conditions, but present-day Mars is a dry desert terrain. New results obtained from the NASA MAVEN mission are explaining the enigma of the change in the image of Mars, which relates to solar wind and the unusual magnetic and electric distributions that the wind creates. The importance of this finding is not only in reconstructing the history of Mars, but also in understanding the cosmological processes which shape the atmospheres of planets.