NASA's InSight lander has fallen silent after being on Mars for more than four years.
Conditions on the red planet have given the lander difficulty in the last few months, and its going silent may signal the end of the lander's time on Mars, according to a report.Its power levels have dwindled due to repeated coatings on its solar panels."It's assumed InSight may have reached the end of its operations," NASA said in a statement."It's unknown what prompted the change in its energy.
The"last time the mission contacted the spacecraft was on Dec. 15, 2022," the statement read."The mission will continue to try and contact InSight." InSight first arrived on Mars in 2018, and it was the first vehicle to record a marsquake, allowing scientists to gain insights into Mars's interior.One major problem for the lander was its German digging device designed to measure the internal temperature of the red planet."My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send," InSight’s team posted to Twitter on the lander's behalf after its last message.
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