NASA has ended its efforts to reconnect with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft and has begun deactivating the orbiter, closing the book on a mission that spent more than a decade studying how Mars lost its atmosphere. At a June 3 media conference, NASA officials announced an anomaly review board — which continues reading “NASA fails to reestablish contact, decommissions MAVEN”
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