NASA extends InSight's mission to break new ground on Mars

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ince landing in 2018, the lander has detected over 1,300"marsquakes," allowing scientists to study Mars' crust, mantle, and core. InSight has also collected weather data, explored the lander's soil, and researched Mars' old magnetic field.

With these successes under its belt, all instruments save the seismometer have since been deactivated. This is due, in part, to the fact that, like earlier Mars missions, InSight features a fault protection mechanism that immediately triggers"safe mode" in threatening scenarios to allow engineers to examine the situation. Low power and overheating might, for example, activate the probe's"safe mode.

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