NASA hasn't heard from its InSight lander in 5 days. It may have run out of power and died on Mars. | Business Insider

The scientists and engineers behind the mission — a platform with a robotic arm and a set of science instruments — have been battling InSight's steadily declining power levels for about two years. Designers had counted on gusts of wind to periodically blow dust off the solar panels. But the open plain where InSight landed hasn't been very windy.

This artist's concept is a simulation of what seismic waves from a Mars quake might look like as they move through different layers of the Martian interior.But the lander struggled to reach its full potential. One of its instruments — a probe called"the mole" — was unable to burrow into the Martian crust. NASA had to abandon that project in 2021.

NASA created the InSight mission to take Mars's vital signs: its pulse in the form of quakes, its temperature through the mole probe, and its"reflexes" through a radio experiment that measured the planet's wobble along its axis and provided information about Mars's deep core. No other Mars mission in NASA's foreseeable future can take the internal temperature measurements the mole was designed to take.

InSight’s solar panels produced roughly 5,000 watt-hours each Martian day, or sol, after the spacecraft touched down in November 2018. But by spring 2022, enough dust had settled on the panels that they were only producing about 500 watt-hours each sol.NASA's engineers tried to remove the dust. The team instructed InSight to shake the solar panels, but that didn't clear them off.

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