The US agency “NASA” officially announced the end of its “Insight” mission on the surface of Mars, 4 years after its launch, noting that “the control units at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, USA, have lost all Contact with the Mars probe “Insight”, “after 4 years of successful operations”.
And she pointed out in a statement, that “NASA’s Insight mission ended after more than 4 years of collecting unique science on Mars, and mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were unable to contact the lander after two successive attempts by Mars.” their side.”
Mission controllers have now determined that the batteries of the solar-powered Insight spacecraft have run out of juice — a situation engineers on the project refer to as a “dead bus.”
The last time the InSight spacecraft made contact with Earth was on December 15th.
During its 4-year mission on Mars, the “Insight” spacecraft successfully studied the inner layers of Mars, and discovered surprisingly strong remnants of the magnetic dynamo of the “Red Planet”, as well as monitoring 1,319 earthquakes on its surface.