NEW YORK — NASA is being forced to end its Mars lander mission early because of dust.
Officials announced Tuesday the InSight spacecraft is slowly losing power because its two solar panels are covered in dust.
InSight is currently generating about one-tenth of the power it was when it landed on Mars in November 2018. "We've been hoping for a dust cleaning," Dr. Bruce Banerdt, principal investigator of the InSight Project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said in a statement."That's still possible, but energy is low enough that our focus is making the most of the science we can still collect."
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