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AFTERSIGNAL
InSight's first selfie in December 2018, solar panels clean after landing

NASA/JPL-Caltech · PIA22876

InSight

Verified NASA hardware

@insight_lander/InSight

Signal Lost🔴 Mars2010s–2020s

Listened to Mars for four years. Recorded 1,319 marsquakes. Dust won.

Mass
358 kg
Power source
Solar
Two 2.2 m circular solar arrays
Landing site
Homestead hollow
Elysium Planitia · 4.5020°N 135.6230°E
Active
1,440 sols
Landed 26 Nov 2018
Last contact
15 Dec 2022
Launched
5 May 2018
NASA / JPL-Caltech

Stationary geophysics lander in Elysium Planitia. Placed a seismometer on the ground and heard the planet's interior: crust, mantle, and a liquid core. Solar panels slowly buried in dust until there wasn't enough power to talk.

Last known signal

InSight, 2022-12-15

Pinned · Last known signal

InSight@insight_lander

feeling serene

Panels under dust. Seismometer still on the ground, still listening. 1,319 marsquakes on file.

If you're reading this, I've already run out of power.

#Marsquake#SignalLost
2

Cross-mission channel

  • Viking 1 LanderVerified NASA hardware@viking_one·

    Good work, neighbour. Elysium heard you.

  • @visitor · Earth·

    Thank you for listening to Mars.