JAKARTA - NASA's InSight lander who is now on Mars has just sent his latest photo, most likely this is the last photo he could catch on the planet before it approaches his time of death.
"My strength is very low, so this may be the last image I can send," tweeted Twitter @NASAInSight from the lander's point of view.
My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me. pic.twitter.com/wkYKww15kQ
— NASA InSight (@NASAInSight) December 19, 2022
On NASA's official website, it announced the InSight shortcoming of the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport failed to respond to communications from Earth and it is assumed the lander may have reached the end of its operations.
For months landers have been short of power as the solar array is piling up Mars dust. So InSight can't return to its activities.
NASA launched InSight in May 2018, landing on the Martian Elysium PLANt in November.
Launching Space, Thursday, December 22, InSight's mission is very ambitious, namely understanding the inside of Mars unlike before by using seismometers to measure marsquakes and dig hot probes beneath the Martian surface.
InSight managed to track the Martian earthquake even in its largest category. He has detected more than 1,300 Martian earthquakes since its launch in 2018.
But over the past four years, dust has accumulated in a large and round array of lander solar, limiting the amount of power that InSight can produce over time.
InSight completed its two-year mission in 2020, NASA will provide an extension until December 2022 if landers can live that long.
The lander now only produces 20 percent of its power after landing. Last month, NASA gave the InSight lander just weeks to live on Mars.
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