NASA's MAVEN detects first evidence of lightning-like activity on Mars

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft over ...
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NASA's MAVEN Mars spacecraft suddenly loses contact with Earth

NASA is working to reestablish communication with MAVEN, the space agency's decade-old Mars orbiter, after it suddenly lost contact with Earth this week. In an update Tuesday, NASA said ground ...
The Debrief

Lightning on Mars: NASA’s MAVEN Orbiter Reveals a Strange Phenomenon on the Red Planet

Researchers have identified powerful Martian electrical discharges, similar to lightning, and strong enough to be observed from orbit.

Is there lightning on Mars? New evidence suggests it’s there, just hard to see

Lightning long ago escaped the bounds of Earth’s atmosphere—scientists have already discovered lightning blazing through the skies of Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. Now they think they’ve found it on ...
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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 ...

NASA rover spots bizarre Mars ‘spiderwebs’ that could be clue to planet’s presence of water

NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent six months exploring the site to investigate if they are a clue to the presence of water.

NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Strange Terrain That Could Rewrite Mars' Water History

NASA's Curiosity rover discovered strange mineral nodules on massive spiderweb formations on Mars.
IFLScience

"It Occurred On The Nightside": NASA's MAVEN Orbiter Detects Potential Lightning Strike On Mars

Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.
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NASA Loses Contact with Spacecraft That's Been Orbiting Mars for Over a Decade

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) was first launched in November 2013 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...
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NASA's Escapade Mars Mission Will Be Completely Different - Here's How

On November 13, NASA launched a new unmanned mission to Mars under the name ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers. The launch was met with fairly little fanfare in ...
University of California

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars — twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold — will launch in early November

NASA’s ESCAPADE is the first UC Berkeley-led planetary mission. Its two identical satellites will provide an unprecedented stereo view of Mars’ magnetosphere. Mapping the ionosphere and space ...