After 4 years on Mars, NASA's InSight lander sends one last selfie and then falls silent.
with its French-built seismometer, including several caused by meteoroid strikes. The most recent marsquake sensed by InSight, earlier this year, left the ground shaking for at least six hours, according to NASA.Just last week, scientists revealed that InSight scored another first, capturing anot just in pictures, but sound. In a stroke of luck, the whirling column of dust blew directly over the lander in 2021 when its microphone was on.
In this artist's concept of NASA's InSight lander on Mars, layers of the planet's subsurface can be seen below and dust devils can be seen in the background.A German digging device - meant to measure the temperature of Mars' interior - never made it deeper than a couple feet , well short of the intended 16 feet . NASA declared it dead nearly two years ago.My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send.
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