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NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

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Measuring the time discrepancy between Earth and Mars will help make future navigation and communication systems on the Red ...

"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together." ...

NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars ...

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NASA has lost contact with MAVEN, a spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than 11 years and one of only three ...

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