NASA announced yesterday, Monday, that it has cut communications with its Mars lander, ‘Insight’, after 4 years of presence on Mars.
And NASA said “Insight” unexpectedly failed to respond to communications from Earth on Sunday, and added, “Insight should have reached the end of its operations,” noting that its last communication was last Thursday.
Interestingly, “Insight” landed on Mars in 2018 and was the first spacecraft to document the earthquake, and has monitored more than 1,300 earthquakes using a French-made seismometer, including several earthquakes caused by meteorites and the latest earthquake detected by InSight earlier this year 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.
