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The mission’s end has been a creeping certainty. The lander has previously been Enforced in safe modes of dust storms on Mars. bridging measures It helped remove some dust from the plates — that is, by deliberately dumping Martian dust onto the dust to expel it — but such measures seem to have prolonged the inevitable.
This latest selfie was taken on April 24 and shows the amount of dust that has accumulated on the spacecraft’s solar panels. It’s a lot more dust than was found in the lander’s first and second selfies, Created in December 2018 In Between March and April 2019.
The selfies are a mosaic, meaning they are stitched together from multiple photos, with each photo requiring the robotic arm holding the landing camera to be in a different position. With power dwindling, selfies just aren’t worth draining the batteries, and the robotic arm will move into rest mode (or “retirement mode”) this month, according to NASA.
At last week’s press conference, Cathia Zamora Garcia, deputy project manager for InSight, said the Earth rover’s science operations could end as early as mid-July, but the climate on Mars is unpredictable.
No matter how much time is left for InSight, we’ll probably never see the lander in such a great panorama again.
More: Dust storm sends Chinese Mars rover into safe mode
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