InSight says goodbye with what may be its last wistful image of Mars

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The rover called its time on the Red Planet 'productive and serene,' as it says its final goodbyes.

a 4.7 magnitude marsquake on May 4 . This quake is the largest ever recorded on the Red Planet.

“The energy released by this single marsquake is equivalent to the cumulative energy from all other Marsquakes we’ve seen so far,” John Clinton, a seismologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and co-author of the study,. “Although the event was over 2,000 kilometers distant, the waves recorded at InSight were so large they almost saturated our seismometer.”

InSight also placed a heat probe called the “mole” into the Martian surface. Unfortunately, the heat probe was

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