NASA’s dead Mars orbiter MAVEN will crash into the Red Planet in the next 100 years. It’s not the only probe in the Mars morgue

NASA just declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after a dozen productive years circling the Red Planet. Here’s the fate that awaits the probe.

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