The Space Doctor on Instagram: "Comment thankyou for the fallen soldier. MAVEN was a NASA Mars orbiter that studies how the Red Planet’s atmosphere has been escaping to space over time. It has also been a crucial communications relay for surface missions like Curiosity and Perseverance. Periodically Maven went behind Mars causing a break in signal with Earth which restored within 30 to 40 minutes but this time it never came back. In early December 2025, contact with MAVEN was unexpectedly lost w