By 22 August 1972, after sending back data and a total of 60 pictures, Mars 2 and 3 concluded their missions.
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To everyone's surprise and delight, the probes kept measuring cosmic radiation and sending back data as they plowed deeper into space.
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Blix also briefed the council Thursday on the situation in North Korea, another country often accused of holding back data from the agency.
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That was a make-or-break task since the craft is supposed to beam back data gathered by Beagle on the surface.
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The Mars Science Lander " Curiosity " rover are still sending back data from Mars, and discoveries continue to be made.
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Of the eleven instruments carried on " Voyager 1 ", five of them are still operational and continue to send back data today.
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In July, the spacecraft released the probe toward the solar system's largest planet, where it will record and send back data to Galileo.
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Among possible victims is tiny Pioneer 10, now nearly six billion miles from Earth and still sending back data more than two decades after it was launched.
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"If they can't get interviewers in the field by Monday, we'll have to push back data collection a week,"
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It sent back data to the Galileo orbiter until atmospheric pressure was 10 times greater than air pressure at sea level on Earth, O'Neil said.
