The solar-powered InSight is being choked by Martian dust.
in unprecedented detail. The lander has succeeded in that goal, detecting more than 1,300 illuminating marsquakes.
"We were down to less than 20% of the original generating capacity," InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in Tuesday's update."That means we can’t afford to run the instruments around the clock."dumped even more grains on the already ruddy InSight. The mission team turned the lander's seismometer off to save power during the storm.
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