[New Tang Dynasty News, ora di Pechino, 24 dicembre 2022]NASA (NASA)OfMars“Unmanned Landing Probe”Intuition“(InSight) landed on Mars 4 years ago. The probe sent a photo of Mars on December 20 and wrote a ‘last note’. This may be the last photo it took of Mars.
IntuitionThe official Twitter posted a photo and a somewhat sad farewell message on Monday, taken on the 11th of this month. InSight wrote: “MyelectricityReally low, so this is probably the last photo I can send back. Don’t worry about me, though—my time here has been both productive and peaceful. If I could keep talking to my mission team, I would, but myMarsThe mission will soon be over. Thanks everyone for being with me. “
My power is very low so this may be the last picture I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can continue to talk to my team about the mission, I will, but I will be stepping down soon. Thanks for staying with me. pic.twitter.com/wkYKww15kQ
— NASA InSight (@NASAInSight) December 19, 2022
by InSightelectricityExpected to sell out later this month, NASA will officially end its mission to Mars when the probe fails two consecutive attempts to communicate with the spacecraft orbiting Mars.
InSight’s operations team began preparing for the end of the rover’s mission earlier this year, shutting down the most power-hungry equipment and making sure that data collected over the past four years was preserved.
In fact, NASA has pointed out several times since last year that InSight’s solar arrays are covered in dust and will be forced to stop working. The agency has also been trying to use InSight’s robotic arm to help clean up the dust from the surfaced, but ultimately failed. With a major dust storm seriously affecting InSight’s power output in October of this year, NASA issued a warning in early November that the spacecraft’s use may have come to an end.
The InSight probe was launched on May 5, 2018 and successfully landed on Mars on November 26. Its main task is to upload aearthquakeA fixed landing vehicle with instrumentation and heat flux detectors is launched to the surface of Mars to study the geological evolution of Mars. Before submitting this photo, it had operated on Mars for 1,446 Martian days (about 1,486 Earth days), far exceeding its originally intended goal of 709 Martian days (728 Earth days).
Since landing, InSight has made more than 1,300 measurements of Mars’ liquid core and other inner core componentsearthquake, which included a magnitude 5 earthquake in May of this year, the largest earthquake ever measured on a planet other than Earth. In addition, he also collected a large amount of Martian meteorological data during the work period of more than 4 years, and this information has laid an important foundation for future Mars projects.
While InSight’s service mission has ended, NASA has two other rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, working on Mars. Both are mobile rovers located in Jezero Crater and Gale Crater respectively, while InSight is a fixed probe located in Elysium Planitia.
(Republished by The Epoch Times/Editor in charge: Ye Ping)
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