Mars Insight lander bids farewell from the red planet

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

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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