The robot that made 'Marsquake' a part of our vocabulary may finally be dead in the Martian dust.
Twilight is closing in on NASA's Mars InSight lander — a robotic seismology lab that has been studying the interior workings of the Red Planet since November 2018.
"My power's really low, so this may be the last image I can send," the official InSight Twitter account tweeted on Dec. 19 along with a dust-covered selfie."Don't worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will — but I'll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me."
NASA will officially declare the InSight mission over if the lander fails to respond to a second consecutive communication session. After that, the 25-to-30-person operations team will wrap up the mission by making sure InSight's four years of data are properly stored and made readily accessible for researchers around the world to use.
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