After a long struggle with Martian dust, NASA’s InSight probe has gone quiet

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After a long struggle with Martian dust, NASA’s InSight probe has gone quiet

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From Ars Technica:
"NASA's InSight lander has probably phoned home for the last time from the planet Mars."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12 ... last-time/

It certainly was fun while it lasted!

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I was also reading about this and I wound up at the NASA blog site for Mars .
Thanks for sharing !
Gee if I had known there was so much to see I would have started decades ago ! :Astronomer1:

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It's beginning to look like something as simple as dust is going to be an obstacle on any surface we can put a spacecraft on for any extended period of exploration.
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Maybe in the future they can design some kind of motorized wipers for the panels.
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Ylem wrote: ↑Sun Dec 25, 2022 10:46 pm Maybe in the future they can design some kind of motorized wipers for the panels.
Yes maybe some sort of blower like a leaf blower to remove it after every dust storms.
I was on a site I think it was the nasa all things Mars site where they had an actual recording of a dust storm it was weird listening ing to it !
Gee if I had known there was so much to see I would have started decades ago ! :Astronomer1:

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