NASA's InSight Mars lander mission officially ended on Wednesday after four years of studying the Red Planet's interior layers and measuring seismic activity.
The lander detected more than 1,300 marsquakes, including a magnitude 5 in May and another massive quake last year caused by a meteoroid impact that unearthed large chunks of ice. InSight last communicated with Earth on Dec. 15 and recently transmitted what is likely its final picture of the Red Planet's horizon.
"My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene," the lander's operators tweeted on its behalf this week."If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me."NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm at ‘Skinner Ridge’ in Mars’ Jezero Crater.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover takes a selfie on Jan. 15 at the 'Rock Hall' drill site in Vera Rubin Ridge.
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