NASA’s Mars Insight investigator must conserve its battery, or it will die on Mars.
InSight is powered by solar energy, which is absorbed by the two meter long panel. However, the unpredictable Martian weather – the recent lack of wind where InSight is located – is threatening the probe’s life.
Strong gusts of wind, known as a “clean-up event” are needed to blow Martian dust off the InSight solar panels. Business Insider Reports. But this wind did not sweep across Planetia Heaven, where the insight was, and a thick layer of dust had accumulated on the probe and could not be properly filled, Yahoo News the.
InSight receives 27 percent of its normal charge power.
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The robot is in good shape and can still operate its moving arm, but it risks causing a potentially deadly blackout, and if the battery dies it will cause InSight too.
NASA is gradually turning off various tools on the probe, and InSight will soon go into hibernation mode. The probe will have to survive the planet’s winter until July 2021 when Mars wobbles near the sun.
“The amount of energy available over the next few months will be greatly influenced by the weather,” said Chuck Scott of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and InSight Project Manager.
“We hope we can bring him back to life, especially if he doesn’t sleep or die for a long time,” said Bruce Banerdt, InSight’s lead researcher. From the inside. “But that would be a suspicious situation.”
He continued, “As part of our additional mission planning, we have developed an operations strategy to keep InSight safe during winter so that we can continue scientific operations with increased sun intensity.”
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