An image of what Maven would look like orbiting Mars<\/p>\n
NASA<\/a> has lost contact<\/a> with its MAVEN<\/a> spacecraft<\/a>, which has been orbiting Mars<\/a> for over a decade. <\/p>\n The MAVEN probe, launched in 2013, ceased communication with ground stations over the weekend after passing behind the Red Planet. <\/p>\n Its primary mission was to study Mars’ upper atmosphere and its interaction with solar wind, revealing how the planet lost most of its atmosphere. <\/p>\n The spacecraft also served as a crucial communication relay for NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on the Martian surface. <\/p>\n NASA is currently investigating the anomaly, with MAVEN having significantly exceeded its initial estimated mission lifetime of one year. <\/p>\n In full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image of what Maven would look like orbiting Mars NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-625097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115697878494663509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}