Honestly? Inspiring.
Since as early as June 2021, NASA has been preparing for the beloved lander's demise, with experts predicting back then that it would peter out by this past spring. But by May, NASA had
"We were kind of expecting that there would be some regional dust storms and that would cause a problem for us," the InSight project manager told the space website. "But in looking at the weather this year, the people that forecast that Mars weather, they are believing that we're not going to see any regional storms still for another couple of weeks."
a storm hits, "it'll go down," the project manager said — and eventually, one of those storms will take it out completely.
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