Nasa to lose InSight lander forever: Martian dust to kill quake whisperer in July

After successfully completing eight years on a desolate, barren world, Mars is finally catching up to Nasa’s InSight lander. Plans call for a gradual shutdown of instruments, including resting my arm in a “retirement pose.” A SURVIVOR The spacecraft had in the past come across a similar fate when it showed a decline in energy as dust particles had settled on its solar arrays that power its equipment nearly a year ago. The team of engineers used the scoop on InSight’s robotic arm to trickle sand next to InSight’s solar panels on May 22 during the afternoon, which is the windiest time on the Red Planet. Send me and my team a postcard: https://t.co/okiQTHpmOo pic.twitter.com/iF0KwANF80 — NASA InSight May 17, 2022 “None of them have quite hit us dead-on yet enough to blow the dust off the panels,” Banerdt told reporters.