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NASA announced that the agency lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft on Dec. 6

MAVEN was first launched into space in November 2013

The spacecraft is used to explore how Mars' upper atmosphere and ionosphere interact with the Sun and the solar wind

NASA announced that they have lost contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft.

The spacecraft was launched in November 2013 and began orbiting Mars in September 2014. However, NASA announced on Tuesday, Dec. 9, that they lost contact on Dec. 6.

"Telemetry from MAVEN had showed all subsystems working normally before it orbited behind the Red Planet," they wrote. However, once it reemerged, the signal was gone.

The agency said their spacecraft and opera

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