by Frank Bergman, Slay News:
NASA has revealed stunning new details after abruptly losing contact with one of its key spacecraft orbiting Mars, just days after the probe’s close-range observation mission involving the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.
The space agency confirmed Monday that the MAVEN probe went dark on December 4, immediately after passing behind Mars while tracking the object NASA insists on calling a comet.
MAVEN then failed to resume normal communication, instead emerging from Mars’s far side rotating abnormally and no longer responding to commands.
NASA now believes MAVEN’s orbit has been altered, though officials admit they won’t know the full extent until, or if, the probe starts transmitting again.
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MAVEN has served as a primary communications relay for multiple Mars rovers since 2014.
This is the first major outage in its decade-long mission.
The timing has already ignited a firestorm.
MAVEN Was Photographing 3I/ATLAS Weeks Earlier
MAVEN came within 18 million miles of 3I/ATLAS in October and reportedly captured several images as the object passed Mars.
NASA released some of the images to the public.
Yet, they were widely criticized as blurry, low-quality, and suspiciously unhelpful.
The blackout occurred just as the probe was once again monitoring the object’s trajectory.
NASA insists the malfunction is a coincidence.
But the public isn’t buying it.
Social Media Erupts: “NASA is lying…”
Furious users on X voiced what many are thinking:
