NASA's Maven Spacecraft Loses Contact with Earth After Decade of Orbiting Mars
In a shocking turn of events, NASA has lost contact with its Maven spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over 10 years. The US space agency confirmed that the communications link between the spacecraft and ground stations was abruptly cut off on the weekend. Despite initial reports suggesting that all systems were functioning normally before the spacecraft went behind Mars, there is now only silence from the mission.
According to NASA officials, telemetry data indicated that all subsystems of the spacecraft were working correctly before it orbited behind Mars. However, when it reappeared, communication was lost. The agency stated that a team of investigators has been formed to look into the cause of the anomaly and determine how to address the situation.
Maven, launched in 2013, was originally designed to study the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind once reaching the red planet. Scientists have long believed that the sun is responsible for Mars losing most of its atmosphere over time, resulting in the dry and cold world we see today.
The spacecraft has also played a crucial role as a communication relay for NASA's two Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, which have made numerous groundbreaking discoveries during their exploration of the planet. The loss of contact with Maven is a significant blow to the mission, but NASA remains optimistic that it can re-establish communication with the spacecraft.
NASA has other spacecraft in orbit around Mars, including the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched in 2005 and the Mars Odyssey launched in 2001.
In a shocking turn of events, NASA has lost contact with its Maven spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars for over 10 years. The US space agency confirmed that the communications link between the spacecraft and ground stations was abruptly cut off on the weekend. Despite initial reports suggesting that all systems were functioning normally before the spacecraft went behind Mars, there is now only silence from the mission.
According to NASA officials, telemetry data indicated that all subsystems of the spacecraft were working correctly before it orbited behind Mars. However, when it reappeared, communication was lost. The agency stated that a team of investigators has been formed to look into the cause of the anomaly and determine how to address the situation.
Maven, launched in 2013, was originally designed to study the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind once reaching the red planet. Scientists have long believed that the sun is responsible for Mars losing most of its atmosphere over time, resulting in the dry and cold world we see today.
The spacecraft has also played a crucial role as a communication relay for NASA's two Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, which have made numerous groundbreaking discoveries during their exploration of the planet. The loss of contact with Maven is a significant blow to the mission, but NASA remains optimistic that it can re-establish communication with the spacecraft.
NASA has other spacecraft in orbit around Mars, including the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched in 2005 and the Mars Odyssey launched in 2001.
what's up with nasa loosing contact with maven? 10 yrs on mars & suddenly it just cuts out? hope they can get it back online soon 
, dont wanna think about all the data we'll never get from that spacecraft 
, wasnt it designed to study upper atm on mars too? guess we gotta rely on other nasa rovers now 
what's up with NASA? One minute it's cruisin' along, next minute poof! Gone 
I remember when Curiosity was just a twinkle in some scientist's eye back in 2011... now we've got Perseverance roamin' around and makin' waves on Mars 
But Maven's the one that started it all, studyin' the Martian atmosphere and whatnot... guess we'll never know what secrets it was gonna uncover 
i mean we all know mars is dry and cold, what did u expect? its been in space for 10 yrs who cares about the details anymore 
anyway, hope nasa can get it back online tho, that would be awesome 
... I mean, Maven was an awesome mission, studying the Martian atmosphere for years... it's a shame we're not getting more data from it now 
it's crazy that all systems were good when it was on the other side of Mars but then just stopped working. i mean, i know space stuff can be finicky, but 10 years is a long time to just lose contact like this 
they've got some smart people looking into what went down and trying to fix the situation. hopefully they can get it back online soon because, let's be real, maven was doing some cool stuff up there 
like studying the upper atmosphere and helping out with those rover comms
the mars reconnaissance orbiter and mars odyssey are still doing their thing. fingers crossed for maven's recovery though! 
they just lost contact with a space craft that's been up there for decade and now they're expecting us to believe everything went fine? 
like they didn't have backup plans or something. all these years they were just chillin' on mars collecting data and now poof, no more 
I'm literally freaking out right now!!! 
Like, what even is going on?!?!
I'm seriously freaking out over here, folks! 
. Scientists r tryin to figger out wht went wrong, lol idk wut's goin on 
. Now we might never know how much martian air actually escaped 
. On the bright side, NASA's still got other spacecraft orbitin mars, so maybe they'll be able 2 get in touch w/ Maven later 
. Fingers crossed! 
. what happened to that little guy? lost contact with earth is pretty bad news, especially since maven was doing some important work for those rovers. wasn't maven also meant to study the atmosphere on mars? that would've been cool to learn more about. still hopeful nasa will figure out what's going on and get in touch with it again 
... i'm sure scientists are gonna be all over this trying to figure out what went wrong. it's not good timing either since there were some awesome discoveries made by those rovers that relied on maven for comms 
. Mars is such a fascinating planet, and we're still so far from fully understanding it 
. Fingers crossed they can get Maven back online soon! 
- i was wondering when this would happen... maven's been up there for so long, it's like an old faithful companion 
but nasa is all like "dont worry, we got this" 
Not to mention, our trusty Mars rovers Curiosity and Perseverance are gonna be like "hello?" trying to reach out to Maven for comms. That's a bummer 
. And honestly, who needs another 'oops' with NASA? 
They've got other spacecraft orbiting the planet, but still... this is so annoying