NASA’s Mars InSight Team Strives For A Few Weeks Of Additional Data

Mars InSight dist-covered solar panel
Credit: NASA/JPL
NASA’s Mars Insight science team plans to extend marsquake-data gathering by the probe’s seismometer while available power dwindles daily due to dust accumulating on the lander’s solar arrays. The seismometer, the last operational science instrument aboard InSight, had been projected to shut itself...

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