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NASA ends MAVEN mission after Mars orbiter falls silent

Generally, no spacecraft get tours going into the sunset! A single signal and it goes silent once again. By virtue of an ...
Mars has become one of the most intensely studied destinations in planetary science, with rovers, landers, and orbiters ...
Roger C. Wiens, professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences in the College of Science, will present his groundbreaking exploration of the Red Planet with instruments that he developed for ...
A routine pass behind Mars marked the end of an era for one of NASA’s most important space missions. After more than a decade ...
NASA has lost contact with one of its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Was Mars once covered in oceans? If so, where did they go? Like many scientific endeavors, understanding the history of water on Mars is a team ...
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant gravitational slingshot to continue its journey toward a strange metal rich asteroid. The close flyby boosted the spacecraft’s speed by about 1,000 ...