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Josh Dinner

NASA's loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter on the far side of the Red Planet

An illustration of a spacecraft with solar panels floating in front of a red planet.

NASA teams are working to restore contact with one of its most advanced interplanetary satellites.

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is one of only three NASA missions currently in operation around Mars, and one of five spacecraft serving as a communications relay for the space agency's rover missions on the Martian surface.

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