NASA Bids Farewell to MAVEN Mars Mission in Public Teleconference

June 05, 2026 Universe Today

NASA Bids Farewell to MAVEN Mars Mission in Public Teleconference
By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/56lZJVv)

Artist’s concept of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft at Mars. NASA recently announced that, due to a loss of communications, the mission had ended. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Colorado/LASP

The first mission devoted to observing the Martian atmosphere and its evolution, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), has ended after more than 11 years in orbit at Mars and a decade beyond its primary, one-year mission.

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