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A global map of Mars shows a massive dust storm in the southern hemisphere, seen in beige on Sept. 29, 2022.touched down in November 2018 to study the Red Planet's structure and seismic activity. But the lander relies on power gathered by its solar panels, and the notoriously dusty planet has dumped a thick layer of material on the panels, dramatically reducing the amount of power that the robot can generate.
Scientists have acknowledged for months that the mission's end was near, and now, a continent-size dust storm is darkening the"We were at about the bottom rung of our ladder when it comes to power. Now we're on the ground floor," Chuck Scott, project manager for InSight at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said in a."If we can ride this out, we can keep operating into winter — but I'd worry about the next storm that comes along.
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