Sad ending! NASA prepares to say farewell to InSight spacecraft
The spacecraft InSight landed on Mars surface in 2018, is now on its deathbed. Scientists stated that the power of spacecraft is about to run out. Here are all details from NASA concerning spacecraft's condition.
To gather new data, NASA has launched numerous spacecraft to visit Mars. The preferred InSight spacecraft for the Mars mission was one of them. However, the most recent report suggests that NASA is getting ready to say farewell for this spacecraft. In a few weeks, the spacecraft will run out. Here are all the details of unexpected ending.
The InSight spacecraft is about to come to the sad ending in a few weeks
NASA's InSight spacecraft that is launched to Mars, successfully landed on the red planet towards the end of 2018. The spacecraft successfully planted its seismometer to the surface to detect seismic activities on Mars and then started drilling. However, it could not perform the desired tasks due to hars conditions of the Mars.
In addition, the vehicle's solar panels, which were covered with dust, faced a regional dust storm. Then the team decided to turn off the seismometer for power efficiency. After the storm ended, InSight continued to collect data. Despite this, scientists stated that the vehicle has only a few weeks of power.
NASA will end science operations of the InSight spacecraft soon
InSight will end its science operations in a few weeks due to the exhausting power supply. Engineers are now working for hours not to lose the data collected by the vehicle.
Data from the spacecraft provided detailed information about Mars' inner layers, its liquid core, the largely depleted magnetic field, the surprisingly variable debris beneath its surface, the weather in this part of Mars, and a wealth of earthquake activity. The largest earthquake detected by the vehicle was magnitude 5. InSight even recorded earthquakes from meteoroid impacts.
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