Mars Insight lander bids farewell from the red planet

HANDOUT - NASA’s InSight lander has sent back what are likely to be its final images from Mars, dated 11 December 2022. Editorial Use Only. Photo by JPL-Caltech/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM. Source: ABACA / ABACA/PA/Alamy

NASA says it is retiring its InSight Mars lander mission, after over four years of collecting data on the red planet.

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InSight landed on Mars in 2018 and was the first spacecraft to document a marsquake.

It detected more than 1,300 marsquakes with its French-built seismometer, including several caused by meteoroid strikes.

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