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A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars may be dead

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...
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NASA just lost contact with a Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one

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 ...
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NASA’s Mars orbiter may have gone silent for good

NASA’s veteran Mars orbiter MAVEN has fallen ominously silent, cutting off a decade-long stream of atmospheric data that reshaped how scientists think about the red planet’s past. After weeks without ...
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NASA's Perseverance rover now has its own 'GPS' on Mars: 'We've given the rover a new ability'

NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, ...
PBS

NASA loses contact with Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said ...
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NASA's latest ESCAPADE is sending twin low-cost orbiters to examine Mars' atmosphere

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That's the future that NASA's ESCAPADE, or Escape and ...
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NASA’s Perseverance rover completes the first AI-planned drive on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...