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MAVEN Mission 2026
June 9 , 2026
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- The United States NASA officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission after losing contact with the spacecraft.
- Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) was launched in 2013 and entered Mars orbit in 2014.
- It was the first mission dedicated to studying the upper atmosphere of Mars and its atmospheric loss.
- Contact was lost in December 2025 after the spacecraft entered safe mode and its batteries were depleted.
- MAVEN helped scientists understand how Mars lost much of its atmosphere over time.
- The mission generated data for more than 800 scientific studies and supported communications for Mars rovers.
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