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all the light stuff like hydrogen got blown out into space since it has no magnetosphere like earth protecting against the solar winds. This leaves all the heavy stuff like carbon dioxide. Calling it a atmosphere is even kind of borderline. The Venera probes did not even use parachutes for the final surface landing stretch. It just floated through the thick atmo down like dropping at the bottom of the ocean

Mars pressurized rover prototype .