NASA announced yesterday, Monday, that it has cut off communications with its Mars lander, “Insight”, after 4 years of its presence on Mars.
And NASA said that “Insight” did not unexpectedly respond to communications from Earth on Sunday, and added, “Insight is supposed to have reached the end of its operations,” noting that its last communication was last Thursday.
It is noteworthy that “Insight” landed on Mars in 2018 and was the first spacecraft to document the earthquake, and it monitored more than 1,300 earthquakes using a French-made seismometer, including several earthquakes caused by meteor strikes, and the last earthquake sensed by InSight, occurred in earlier this year, and left the Earth shaking for at least six hours, according to NASA.
NASA still has two active rovers on Mars: Curiosity, which has been roaming the surface since 2012, and Perseverance, which arrived early last year.