After more than four years on the Red Planet, NASA’s InSight Mars lander transmitted what may be its last image on Monday as the spacecraft's power dwindles.
InSight's operations team started preparing for the lander's end earlier this year, shutting down devices that require the most power and ensuring that data it has collected over the past four years is preserved.
Selfie taken by the Insight lander's Instrument Deployment Camera on the lander’s robotic arm on April 11, 2019.Since it landed in November 2018, the lander has provided insight on Mars' liquid core and the composition of its other interior layers. It has detected more than 1,300 quakes on the planet, including a magnitude 5 in May.
"Finally, we can see Mars as a planet with layers, with different thicknesses, compositions," Bruce Banerdt of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California said in a statement last month."We’re starting to really tease out the details. Now it’s not just this enigma; it’s actually a living,
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