CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-- NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade.Launched in 2013, Maven began studying the upper Martian atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind once reaching the red planet the following year.
Scientists ended up blaming the sun for Mars losing most of its atmosphere to space over the eons, turning it from wet and warm to the dry and cold world it is today.Engineering investigations are underway, according to NASA.Popular ReadsMother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew ordered released from DHS detentionDec 8, 3:50 PMAlina Habba resigns as New Jersey US attorney after appeals court defeatDec 8, 2:10 PMTrump admin live updates: Trump pardons former entertainment exec indicted by own DOJDec 4, 6:23 AMNASA has two other spacecraft around Mars that are still active: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched in 2005, and Mars Odyssey, launched in 2001.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.The AP is solely responsible for all content.
