New photo reveals a NASA spacecraft cloaked in Martian dust
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The spacecraft, which landed on the red planet in November 2018 to study seismic activity, simply cannot produce enough power to operate normally.InSight has detected more than 1,300 marsquakes, NASA scientists say, including a relatively powerful magnitude 5 quake on May 4. Eventually, they succumb to the cold or the radiation or the dust, and we can no longer communicate with them.But InSight was a good spacecraft, outliving its design lifetime of two years and producing a bonanza of science, including the discovery that the Martian core is much smaller than expected.You must login or create an account to comment.Join the Ars Orbital Transmission mailing list to get weekly updates delivered to your inbox.
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