Yet another Mars mission is about to bite the dust.
rovers. Though the veteran craft Curiosity is puttering roughly 373 miles away from InSight, scientists say a rescue mission isn’t likely. Mainly, because the distance between them is even farther than the total distance Curiosity has traveled since the mission first touched down in 2012., is also still in operation, exploring a region of the red planet called Utopia Planitia as it seeks to learn more about what Mars looked like in the past.
NASA’s InSight Mars lander captured this image of one of its dust-covered solar panels on April 24, 2022.When InSight’s solar panels are completely obscured, NASA currently has no plans to conduct what the agency calls” to find a way to reconnect and rescue the craft, save a lucky gust of wind that might sweep the offending particles off enough for InSight to begin charging again. But Panning says that the possibility for the craft to wake up does exist.
”We know what we need to listen for if that eventuality happens, but we’re of course not counting on that,” Panning says.As long as mission scientists are able to communicate with InSight, the craft will certainly keep chugging along, continuing to take the last of its measurements and photos. All of its scientific data, which was already being
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