NASA's InSight lander may have just signed off for good from Mars. The agency says it'll likely be inoperative by the end of the year.
that had been buried underground. NASA called that series of events"an icy bonanza."
InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt told NPR earlier this year that the team had accomplished all it set out to do, except for one disappointing heat flow experiment. And he repeated the praise in NASA's early November update. "Finally, we can see Mars as a planet with layers, with different thicknesses, compositions," Banerdt said."We're starting to really tease out the details. Now it's not just this enigma; it's actually a living, breathing planet.
The InSight team had prepared for the lander's expiry by preserving its data and adding it to an international archive, turning off many of its systems to conserve power and packing up the full-size engineering model of the lander known as"ForeSight."NASA says once it declares the mission over, it will keep listening"for a time, just in case."
"There will be no heroic measures to re-establish contact with InSight," it said."While a mission-saving event — a strong gust of wind, say, that cleans the panels off — isn't out of the question, it is considered unlikely."
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