After some 3 years on the surface of Mars listening for seismic tremors and collecting other data, the end is near for NASA’s InSight lander.
As a result of dust collecting on the probe’s power-producing solar panels, its science operations will end in July, NASA officials announced today, with a complete shutdown expected by the end of the year.
After the team switched on the instrument in February 2019, however, it heard nothing for 2 months. “We were rather nervous,” recalls John Clinton, a seismologist from ETH Zand a co-investigator on the mission. One fear was that any marsquakes were too faint to be detected.
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