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NASA Loses Contact With MAVEN Mars Orbiter After 11-Year Mission: "Loss Of Signal"
Maven, launched in 2013, entered Mars' orbit in September 2014 to study the upper atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind.
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MAVEN Reveals How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere and Became a Barren World
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of "sputtering"—a powerful atmospheric escape process where solar wind particles blast atoms off Mars. The newly published study confirms that this process played a major role in the Red Planet’s transformation from a once-wet, habitable world to its current barren state. Argon ga...
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SpaceX Plans To Develop 'Marslink' Network To Provide Internet On Mars
SpaceX has introduced a Marslink concept, a satellite-based communication network around Mars, to support interplanetary data exchange for future Mars missions. NASA reviewed this and other proposals, including Blue Origin's Blue Ring orbital tug and Lockheed Martin's MAVEN-based network. The Marslink network would build on SpaceX’s Starlink tech...
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Mars Loses Water Faster When Closer to the Sun, New Hubble and MAVEN Study Shows
Mars loses water faster when it is closest to the Sun, according to new data from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission. The rate of hydrogen loss in Mars' atmosphere increases significantly during perihelion, the point in its orbit closest to the Sun. This seasonal change has major implicati...
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"Purple Rain": NASA's Mars Orbiter Detects Auroras On Red Planet
In its recent post, NASA delighted its Instagram followers with an animated GIF showing auroras across Mars' nightside.
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NASA Shares Stunning Ultraviolet Images Of Mars Captured By Maven Spacecraft
The scientists were able to gain better insight into the red planet's atmosphere by viewing it in ultraviolet wavelengths.
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Researchers Reveal How Mars Has Discreet Auroras Without Presence of Global Magnetic Field
A team of scientists at the University of Iowa, US, have discovered how discrete auroras form on Mars in the absence of a global magnetic field. It has been reported that discrete auroras on the Red Planet are governed by the localised interaction between the solar wind and magnetic fields generated by the crust on Mars – unlike Earth, where auro...
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NASA's Maven Spacecraft Helps Map Winds in Mars' Upper Atmosphere for First Time
Using data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, researchers have created the first-ever map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of Mars.
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NASA Turns Mars Sniffer MAVEN Into Data-Relay Satellite For Rovers
NASA's atmosphere-sniffing Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has embarked on a new campaign to tighten its orbit around the red planet to become a data-relay satellite for the US space agency's Mars 2020 rover.
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NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Marks 4 Years in Mars Orbit With a Selfie
In the selfie, lines are sketched in to show approximately where components of the MAVEN spacecraft are that were not able to be imaged due to the limited motion of the instrument around its support boom.
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NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Marks 4 Years In Mars Orbit With Selfie
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft released a selfie image of the spacecraft at Mars, celebrating its four years in orbit studying the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet
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NASA's $750,000 Prize For Helping Astronauts Live on Mars
American space agency NASA has announced a public challenge to take ideas from people on how its astronauts can survive on Mars. Mars has plenty of carbon dioxide (CO2). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is looking to leverage the Red Planet's natural resource to make it useful for the astronauts.
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NASA's Opportunity Rover Halted Over Martian Dust Storm
NASA's Opportunity rover's science operations have been temporarily suspended as it waits out a growing dust storm on Mars, the US space agency said in a statement.
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Mars Has Metal In Its Atmosphere, Reveals NASA Probe
Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, show results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft.
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NASA Orbiter Avoids Collision With Mars Moon Phobos
In a rare event, NASA's Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft was forced to perform a previously unplanned manoeuvre this week to avoid a head on collision with red planet's lumpy, crater-filled moon Phobos.
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NASA Loses Contact With MAVEN Mars Orbiter After 11-Year Mission: "Loss Of Signal"
Maven, launched in 2013, entered Mars' orbit in September 2014 to study the upper atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind.
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MAVEN Reveals How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere and Became a Barren World
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of "sputtering"—a powerful atmospheric escape process where solar wind particles blast atoms off Mars. The newly published study confirms that this process played a major role in the Red Planet’s transformation from a once-wet, habitable world to its current barren state. Argon ga...
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SpaceX Plans To Develop 'Marslink' Network To Provide Internet On Mars
SpaceX has introduced a Marslink concept, a satellite-based communication network around Mars, to support interplanetary data exchange for future Mars missions. NASA reviewed this and other proposals, including Blue Origin's Blue Ring orbital tug and Lockheed Martin's MAVEN-based network. The Marslink network would build on SpaceX’s Starlink tech...
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Mars Loses Water Faster When Closer to the Sun, New Hubble and MAVEN Study Shows
Mars loses water faster when it is closest to the Sun, according to new data from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission. The rate of hydrogen loss in Mars' atmosphere increases significantly during perihelion, the point in its orbit closest to the Sun. This seasonal change has major implicati...
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"Purple Rain": NASA's Mars Orbiter Detects Auroras On Red Planet
In its recent post, NASA delighted its Instagram followers with an animated GIF showing auroras across Mars' nightside.
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NASA Shares Stunning Ultraviolet Images Of Mars Captured By Maven Spacecraft
The scientists were able to gain better insight into the red planet's atmosphere by viewing it in ultraviolet wavelengths.
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Researchers Reveal How Mars Has Discreet Auroras Without Presence of Global Magnetic Field
A team of scientists at the University of Iowa, US, have discovered how discrete auroras form on Mars in the absence of a global magnetic field. It has been reported that discrete auroras on the Red Planet are governed by the localised interaction between the solar wind and magnetic fields generated by the crust on Mars – unlike Earth, where auro...
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NASA's Maven Spacecraft Helps Map Winds in Mars' Upper Atmosphere for First Time
Using data from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, researchers have created the first-ever map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of Mars.
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NASA Turns Mars Sniffer MAVEN Into Data-Relay Satellite For Rovers
NASA's atmosphere-sniffing Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has embarked on a new campaign to tighten its orbit around the red planet to become a data-relay satellite for the US space agency's Mars 2020 rover.
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NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Marks 4 Years in Mars Orbit With a Selfie
In the selfie, lines are sketched in to show approximately where components of the MAVEN spacecraft are that were not able to be imaged due to the limited motion of the instrument around its support boom.
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NASA's MAVEN Spacecraft Marks 4 Years In Mars Orbit With Selfie
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft released a selfie image of the spacecraft at Mars, celebrating its four years in orbit studying the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet
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NASA's $750,000 Prize For Helping Astronauts Live on Mars
American space agency NASA has announced a public challenge to take ideas from people on how its astronauts can survive on Mars. Mars has plenty of carbon dioxide (CO2). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is looking to leverage the Red Planet's natural resource to make it useful for the astronauts.
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NASA's Opportunity Rover Halted Over Martian Dust Storm
NASA's Opportunity rover's science operations have been temporarily suspended as it waits out a growing dust storm on Mars, the US space agency said in a statement.
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Mars Has Metal In Its Atmosphere, Reveals NASA Probe
Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, show results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft.
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NASA Orbiter Avoids Collision With Mars Moon Phobos
In a rare event, NASA's Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft was forced to perform a previously unplanned manoeuvre this week to avoid a head on collision with red planet's lumpy, crater-filled moon Phobos.
