{"id":459294,"date":"2026-06-03T19:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459294\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:05:09","slug":"nasa-declares-its-mars-maven-spacecraft-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459294\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA declares its Mars Maven spacecraft dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

After six months of radio silence, NASA\u2019s Maven spacecraft<\/a> at Mars has been declared dead.<\/p>\n

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The space agency confirmed Wednesday that the mission had ended<\/a> after more than a decade of observations.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2013 to study the red planet\u2019s atmosphere from orbit, Maven<\/a> mysteriously fell silent in early December after passing behind Mars. Data indicated the spacecraft went into a fast spin, which disrupted its orbit and drained the onboard batteries.<\/p>\n

A review board convened by NASA earlier this year concluded that the spacecraft is useless and unable to be recovered. An investigation continues into what caused the problem.<\/p>\n

Besides studying Martian weather and observing a stray interstellar comet last year, Maven helped relay information from NASA\u2019s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on the surface.<\/p>\n

Maven\u2019s lead scientist, Shannon Curry of the University of Colorado Boulder, said the spacecraft made a number of \u201camazing discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maven \u201chas truly advanced our understanding of the Martian atmosphere and evolution,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After six months of radio silence, NASA\u2019s Maven spacecraft at Mars has been declared dead. Subscribe to read…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-459294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}