We can only speculate as to why the Trump administration wants to end the missions. But considering president Donald Trump's staunch climate change denial and his administration's efforts to deal the agency's science directorate a potentially existential blow, it's not difficult to speculate.

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A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they'd been providing had been "of exceptionally high quality."

Could also "accidentally" leak all the data, in case there are no non-US backups.

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