Robot says it might be sending its last message from Mars as dust chokes out its power supply
The robotic geologist, armed with a hammer and quake monitor, first touched down on the barren expanse of Elysium Planitia in November 2018.
It has since undertaken geologic excavations, making the first measurements of marsquakes using a hi-tech seismometer placed directly on the Martian surface.“I’ve been lucky enough to live on two planets. Four years ago, I arrived safely at the second one, to the delight of my family back on the first. Thanks to my team for sending me on this journey of discovery. Hope I’ve done you proud,” it said.
Since its deployment, Insight has measured over 1,300 seismic events, and more than 50 of them had clear enough signals for the team to derive information about their location on Mars, according to published missionThe lander data has also yielded details about Mars’ interior layers, its liquid core, the surprisingly variable remnants beneath the surface of its mostly extinct magnetic field, weather and quake activity.
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