. The most recent marsquake sensed by InSight, earlier this year, left the ground shaking for at least six hours, according to NASA.Just last week, scientists revealed that InSight scored another first, capturing a
not just in pictures, but sound. In a stroke of luck, the whirling column of dust blew directly over the lander in 2021 when its microphone was on.A German digging device — meant to measure the temperature of Mars’ interior — never made it deeper than a couple feet , well short of the intended 16 feet . NASA declared it dead nearly two years ago.“My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send,” the teamon InSight’s behalf.
NASA still has two active rovers on Mars: Curiosity, roaming the surface since 2012, and Perseverance, which arrived early last year. Perseverance is in the midst of creating a sample depot; the plan is to leave 10 tubes of rock cores on the Martian surface as a backup to samples on the rover itself. NASA plans to bring some of these samples back to Earth in a decade, in its longtime search for signs of ancient microscopic life on Mars.named Ingenuity. It just completed its 37th flight and has now logged more than an hour of Martian flight time.
Our craft on Mars looks like a Martian craft on Earth. 😯
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