NASA InSight lander’s mission complete. 

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NASA InSight lander’s mission complete. 

NASA’s InSight lander has finished its mission, the organization said on Wednesday, after more than four years of gathering distinctive scientific data on Mars. NASA InSight lander’s mission complete. 

NASA’s four-year investigation of Mars comes to an end when its InSight lander loses contact with Earth.

Mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California determined that the spacecraft’s solar-powered batteries had run out of power after two attempts to contact the lander in succession, a state known as “dead bus.”

NASA‘s initial plan was for the mission to be abandoned if the lander didn’t reply to two contact attempts. NASA reports that InSight’s most recent exchange with Earth occurred on December 15.

 The organization’s first successful landing on Mars since the Curiosity rover in 2012 occurred in late November 2018.

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NASA reports that during the preceding four years, Insight has uncovered countless scientific truths and identified over 1,300 marsquakes.

The InSight lander touch down on Mars in late November 2018 with technology designe to detect planetary seismic rumblings that had never been notice anywhere other than Earth. The lander’s planne two-year mission was later extend to four years.

It has a view of the planet’s equator from the Elysium Planitia, a broad, relatively flat plain. Researchers found that the thickness of the planet’s outer crust, the size and density of its inner core, and the makeup of the mantle between were all revealed by the InSight data.

More than 1,300 marsquakes were record by InSight, demonstrating the red planet’s undeniable seismic activity. It also measured the seismic waves created by meteorite impacts.

 “The seismic data alone from this Discovery Program mission delivers remarkable insights not just into Mars but other rocky worlds, including Earth,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s science mission directorate.

 InSight retires while NASA’s Perseverance, a more recent robotic visitor to the red planet, gathers samples of Martian minerals for planned research on Earth.

 

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