The mission of the InSight Mars probe will end this year due to power problems, said Thomas Zurbuchen, head of NASA’s Directorate for Scientific Missions.
“NASA’s InSight Mars lander is gradually losing power. It is expected that he will finish conducting scientific research this summer. By December, experts expect that the device will stop working, thereby completing the mission, which has so far recorded more than 1,300 marsquakes,” Zurbuchen wrote on Twitter.
He added that the information gathered during the study of Martian earthquakes allowed scientists to study the depth and composition of the crust, mantle and core of the Red Planet. The device also collected important meteorological data and investigated the remnants of the magnetic field of Mars that existed in the distant past.