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Something happened to the probe on the far side of the Red Planet.

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Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

'The spacecraft and operations teams are investigating the anomaly,' says the agency.

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