Kayleigh McEnany: This is not how we expected 2025 to kick off. Few days into the new year and I’m already fielding questions about a rather surprising development – the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the US Mars 2020 rover. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “This has to be a drill, right?” But no, this is indeed real folks. The quiet truth is out, and it’s sent shockwaves across the scientific community and beyond.
Here’s the rundown: in late December, NASA received signals that the rover had gone dark. Not a peep, not a tweet, not a satellite ping – nothing. Did the 4-wheel-drive vehicle, designed to explore the Martian surface, just call it quits after 2 whole years? Was it a technical glitch? Triage? A hack? Nobody knows (yet). What’s certain, however, is the huge implications. As a New York Times opinion editor and former White House Press Secretary, I’m here to give you the inside scoop and decode this enigmatic, high-stakes drama unfolding before our very eyes!
Experts speculate the cause of its vanishing act, speculating that solar radiation, a well-known threat to deep-space electronics, might be to blame. Though that’d be immense, isn’t the most aero-geek, Mars4thought thing to experience. Your move, America.
