{"id":1782012,"date":"2022-12-20T18:17:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T23:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782012"},"modified":"2022-12-20T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T23:18:00","slug":"mars-insight-lander-sends-final-selfie-before-losing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mars-insight-lander-sends-final-selfie-before-losing-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars InSight Lander Sends Final Selfie Before Losing Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmars-insight-lander-sends-final-selfie-before-losing-power%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782012&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA\u2019s<\/a> InSight lander shared one final selfie posted on Monday before losing power, likely ending its mission that started in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent image may be InSight\u2019s last, which comes shortly after recording the most powerful quake recorded on the red planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy power\u2019s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don\u2019t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene,\u201d NASA\u2019s InSight account tweeted. \u201cIf I can keep talking to my mission team, I will \u2013 but I\u2019ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My power\u2019s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don\u2019t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will \u2013 but I\u2019ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wkYKww15kQ\">pic.twitter.com\/wkYKww15kQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASA InSight (@NASAInSight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAInSight\/status\/1604955574659035136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/insight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">update<\/a> from NASA on Monday, the Mars InSight blog revealed that the lander\u2019s communications were no longer responding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lander\u2019s power has been declining for months, as expected, and it\u2019s assumed InSight may have reached its end of operations. It\u2019s unknown what prompted the change in its energy; the last time the mission contacted the spacecraft was on Dec. 15, 2022,\u201d the update read. \u201cThe mission will continue to try and contact InSight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA previously reported on December 12 that InSight\u2019s power had declined to \u201can average of ~285 watt-hours of energy per Martian day\u201d as the mission headed toward an end.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on November 23, the NASA InSight Twitter account first noted that its end could be near.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime may be short for me, but I\u2019ll keep sending back science for as long as I can,\u201d its account tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Time may be short for me, but I\u2019ll keep sending back science for as long as I can. Meanwhile, I\u2019m not the only bot on Mars. Keep exploring the Red Planet by following the adventures of: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAPersevere?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASAPersevere<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarsCuriosity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MarsCuriosity<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAMars?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASAMars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And learn about the next team of explorers: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bVnYofejlE\">pic.twitter.com\/bVnYofejlE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASA InSight (@NASAInSight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAInSight\/status\/1595463281954594818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In May, the lander detected the largest quake ever recorded on Mars. The 4.7 magnitude quake included reverberations that lasted over an hour. The previous top quake recorded on the red planet was 4.2 magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was definitely the biggest Marsquake that we have seen,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/massive-marsquake-five-times-larger-than-previous-record-holder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Taichi Kawamura, lead author and planetary scientist at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, France. Kawamura co-authored the <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1029\/2022GL101243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scientific paper<\/a> regarding quakes on Mars with seismologist John Clinton at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Z\u00fcrich.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energy released by this single marsquake is equivalent to the cumulative energy from all other Marsquakes we\u2019ve seen so far, and although the event was over 2000 kilometers (1200 miles) distant, the waves recorded at InSight were so large they almost saturated our seismometer,\u201d Clinton said in the research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time we were able to identify surface waves, moving along the crust and upper mantle, that have traveled around the planet multiple times,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>InSight was the first spacecraft to document a marsquake. It detected more than 1,300\u00a0marsquakes with its built-in seismometer, including several caused by meteoroid strikes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-insight-lander-falls-silent-mars-final-selfie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to InSight, NASA has the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAPersevere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perseverance Mars Rover<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarsCuriosity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curiosity Rover<\/a> at work on the red planet.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/researchers-release-first-ever-audio-of-martian-dust-devil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the Perseverance rover recently recorded the audio of the first Martian dust devils, which traveled directly above the\u00a0rover and sprayed the device with dust. The rover happened to have its microphone turned on when the dust phenomenon passed above it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s InSight lander shared one final selfie posted on Monday before losing power, likely ending its mission that started in 2018. The most recent image may be InSight\u2019s last, which comes shortly after recording the most powerful quake recorded on the red planet. \u201cMy power\u2019s really low, so this may be the last image I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1782015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6202,8762,10700,10699,8371,10702,5084,10701,5774,6195],"class_list":["post-1782012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-daily","tag-final","tag-insight","tag-lander","tag-losing","tag-mars","tag-power","tag-selfie","tag-sends","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}