NASA loses communication with the InSight spacecraft on Mars and considers it dead

By 22/12/2022 Portal

El sismómetro de InSight fotografiado por la propia nave el 11 de diciembre, una de sus últimas imágenes.

The first space mission to capture earthquakes on another planet and reveal its interior structure —InSight— has been presumed dead after two failed attempts at communication. The last time the US space agency (NASA) managed to connect with this van-sized ship located near the equator of Mars was on December 15. Those responsible for the mission were aware that they were going to lose contact with the ship, since for months its solar panels had been filled with very fine Martian dust that had left its batteries without energy.

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