InSight arrived at Mars in 2018, recording more than 1,300 marsquakes and even documenting a Martian dust devil not just in pictures, but sound.
The lander’s power levels have been dwindling for months because of all the dust coating its solar panels. Ground controllers at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory knew the end was near, but NASA reported that InSight unexpectedly didn't respond to communications from Earth on Sunday.
. In a stroke of luck, the whirling column of dust blew directly over the lander in 2021 when its microphone was on.The lander's other main instrument, however, encountered nothing but trouble. NASA still has two active rovers on Mars: Curiosity, roaming the surface since 2012, and Perseverance, which arrived early last year.Mars rover Curiosity has been exploring the Red Planet for a decade
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