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NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever

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June 4, 2026 • 74 views
Original source: Scientific American
NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s communications network at the Red Planet

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