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NASA's loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft goes silent: What happened to Mars’ most important orbiter?

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since 2014, is experiencing an unprecedented communication failure. The spacecraft, critical to understanding the Martian atmosphere, lost contact with Earth on December 6,

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NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one

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A Vital NASA Mars Orbiter Has Gone Dark

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NASA loses contact with critical Mars orbiter MAVEN

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has orbited Mars for over a decade.

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NASA Loses Contact with Spacecraft That's Been Orbiting Mars for Over a Decade

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A NASA Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Mysteriously Went Offline

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NASA’s latest Mars mission could reveal why the red planet dried out

Mars once looked far more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water pooling on its surface, yet today it is a frozen desert where even a thin wisp of air struggles to hold on. NASA’s latest mission aims to catch the planet in the act of losing what remains of that air,

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NASA's Escapade Mars Mission Will Be Completely Different - Here's How

NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission is sending two identical satellites into Martian orbit via a non-standard transfer on a low-cost, high-risk mission.

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NASA's newest mission hopes to learn how and why Mars became a dead planet

NASA is sending two spacecraft to Mars on their new ESCAPADE mission to reveal how space weather robbed it of its atmosphere and turned it dry

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NASA JPL Debuts Rover Hub for Moon, Mars Missions

This video highlights the Rover Operations Center at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A center of excellence for current and future

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NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars—twin satellites dubbed Blue and Gold will launch in early November

The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The two identical spacecraft are managed and ...

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NASA quietly sends two spacecraft to Mars — and they're going a new way

NASA's Escapade mission, run by UC Berkeley, will get to the bottom of how solar radiation strips away the tattered Martian atmosphere. Credit: James Rattray / Rocket Lab USA illustration The U.S. space agency has fallen silent amid the federal government ...

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Mars Sample That May Contain Evidence of Life Might Never Come Home

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled nearly the distance of a marathon to answer some of the ...

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NASA's AI Doctor May Be The Key To Surviving A Mars Mission

In NASA's current missions, medical risks are manageable. There's the opportunity for emergency evacuations, real-time communications, and the ability to send samples to Earth. However, long-term future missions, such as going to Mars, will take away that ...

University of California

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars — twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold — will launch in early November

NASA’s ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars’ magnetosphere. Mapping the ionosphere and space environment are key to understanding Mars’ evolution and ...