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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Marcia Dunn

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.

MAVEN, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, was launched in 2013 and began studying the evolution of Mars' upper atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind the following year.

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