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NASA said farewell on Wednesday to the InSight lander that spent four years probing the interior of Mars. NASA said farewell on Wednesday to the InSight lander that spent four years probing the interior of Mars.The US space agency said mission control had been unable to contact the spacecraft on two consecutive attempts, leading to the conclusion that its solar-powered batteries have run out of energy. "InSight may be retiring, but its legacy -- and its findings from the deep interior of Mars -- will live on," NASA…

NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the US space agency announced on Wednesday.Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles determined the mission was over when two consecutive attempts to re-establish radio contact with the lander failed, a sign that InSight's solar-powered batteries had run out of energy.NASA predicted in…

NASA's InSight lander had sent a touching message just before its death. Back in November 2018, US space agency NASA landed its InSight Lander on Mars with the aim of helping scientists see deep into Mars. Now, after more than four years of doing unique science on Mars, NASA has officially ended the InSight mission. NASA's InSight lander had sent a touching message just before its death a day ago that said, “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…

The NASA InSight Lander has detected a rare moment of a meteoroid strike on Mars. Know what it revealed about the red planet. While meteoroids, small pieces of asteroids or comets, keep hitting and getting burnt in the upper atmosphere of the Earth, an actual strike to the ground is a rare event. If these meteoroids survive the atmosphere, and hit the Earth, they are called meteorites. These strikes happen on every planet in the solar system. This is why the latest observation by the NASA InSight Lander, which went to…

Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet.The high-speed barrages last year sent seismic waves rippling thousands of miles across Mars, the first ever detected near the surface of another planet, and carved out craters nearly 500 feet (150 meters) across, scientists reported Thursday in the journal Science.The larger of the two strikes churned out boulder-size slabs of ice, which may help researchers look for ways future…

A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise.The Insight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will keep using the spacecraft's seismometer to register marsquakes until the power peters out, likely in July. Then flight controllers will monitor InSight until the end of this year, before calling everything off.“There really hasn't been too much doom and gloom on the team. We're really still focused on operating the spacecraft,” said Jet Propulsion Laboratory's…