NASA faces a crucial choice on a Mars spacecraft—and it must decide soon

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue ...
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A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars may be dead

For nearly a month, NASA has been scrambling to make contact with a spacecraft in orbit around Mars that abruptly fell silent. The space agency lost communication with the MAVEN probe (short for Mars ...

Fly over Mars' Noctis Labyrinthus in this visualization from spacecraft data

Data from the Mars Express orbiter has been used to create a visualization of "a vast system of deep and steep valleys that ...
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NASA Launches InSight Spacecraft to Mars to Dig Down Deep

A robotic geologist armed with a hammer and quake monitor rocketed toward Mars on Saturday, aiming to land on the red planet and explore its mysterious insides. In a twist, NASA launched the Mars ...