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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


"The spacecraft's basically in a configuration, in an orbit, that's very similar to what it would have been if the mission had ended nominally."

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