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NASA Temporarily Halts Communication With Mars Fleet – PCMag AU
The downtime is necessary during the biannual Mars solar conjunction.
NASA engineers will take a few weeks’ break from directing Mars missions while Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the Sun.
The phenomenon, known as Mars solar conjunction, occurs every two years as the Sun’s ionized gas blocks the planets’…
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