The lander is coated in red as it winds down science operations.
Monday , shows regolith all over InSight in a selfie taken on April 24, the 1,211th sol of the mission.A dusty self-portrait.@NASAInSight took what is likely to be its final selfie on April 24. In the GIF, you can see the spacecraft’s first selfie in December 2018 and its last one where it’s covered in Martian dust. https://t.co/gvCNyRPnzC pic.twitter.
Still, the agency says InSight will likely run too low on power later this year to conduct new science. But the mission's science value is signaled by the agency's extensions to its work; the lander's primary mission lasted one Martian year, or nearly two Earth years. InSight didn't include a secondary system to clean off dust, relying instead on passing dust devils or strong breezes to clean the lander. Engineers did manage to remove a bit of dust in 2021 by
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