NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently spotted the retired InSight lander on the surface of the Red Planet. There are teams still studying InSight’s landing site over time to see how quickly dust accumulates.
Why? Studying how dust accumulates helps scientists estimate the age of other surface disturbances. InSight started its mission on May 5, 2018 and its objectives were to place a seismometer on the surface of Mars to measure seismic activity and provide accurate 3D models of the planet’s interior.
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Excessive dust on its solar panels prevented it from recharging, so NASA put InSight in low-power mode for detecting seismic events in July 2022 and continued monitoring the lander through the operational period ending in December 2022. NASA announced that the InSight lander had lost communications with Earth on December 15, 2022, with the end of the mission being officially declared just six days later.
