InSight goes silent as Martian dust and cold ends mission

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 27, 2022

The InSight Mars mission is history. On 20 December 2022, NASA declared the mission over. The two attempts from Mission Control Centre at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California to reach the lander via relay satellites in Mars orbit have been unsuccessful. This almost certainly means that InSight's solar-powered batteries are no longer supplying enough power, a condition en