Dust Prompts Early End To NASA’s Extended Mars InSight Mission
Credit: NASA/Caltech-JPL
Science operations aboard NASA’s Mars InSight lander are expected to stop by late summer rather than year-end due to an accumulation of dust on the lander’s two circular solar arrays. The dust dramatically limits the electrical power the arrays can generate for Insight’s seismometer, camera and...
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