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InSight Surface Operations, 26 Nov 2018- 21 Dec 2022
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post Oct 27 2022, 10:50 PM
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HiRISE image is here:
https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_073077_2155
This was taken February 27th, about 2 months after impact; since ice isn't stable at that latitude, they will eventually vanish (though obviously much more time than the tiny chunks Phoenix dug up from its trench, but the higher daytime temperature should speed the process up somewhat. Presumably there will be follow-up HiRISE imagery? They ended the presser after half an hour, obviously not enough time to get all the questions.
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post Dec 13 2022, 08:47 PM
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https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/news-and-events/status/

~285 Wh as of yesterday, which is about the level of the last precautionary seismometer deactivation.

Coming up on vernal equinox there, so I assume it's still dust accumulation that's driving the trend.
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post Dec 20 2022, 11:22 AM
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Sad news

On Dec. 18, 2022, NASA’s InSight did not respond to communications from Earth. The lander’s power has been declining for months, as expected, and it’s assumed InSight may have reached its end of operations. It’s unknown what prompted the change in its energy; the last time the mission contacted the spacecraft was on Dec. 15, 2022.

The mission will continue to try and contact InSight.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/insight/
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post Dec 21 2022, 03:42 AM
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Well done Insight! These stationary landers dont get the
press the rovers do, for obvious reasons, but this mission
and Phoenix have done really important work.
It was a shame about the heat flow probe,
but next time I'm sure they will try something different.
Everything else worked a treat, and I look forward to seeing
publications coming from this mission for many years to come.

I wonder when we will next we will next see a seismometer on Mars?

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post Dec 21 2022, 05:03 PM
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NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander After Years Of Science

Farewell, little probe, and thank you!


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post Dec 21 2022, 08:37 PM
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QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 21 2022, 05:03 PM) *
NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander After Years Of Science

Farewell, little probe, and thank you!


Aww, that's sad.
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post Dec 27 2022, 05:41 AM
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Farewell InSight, you were an amazing but underrated probe that made Mars geologically exciting again!


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post Jan 3 2023, 09:18 PM
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QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ May 30 2020, 02:44 PM) *
I have requested a HiRISE image.

Going to try smile.gif


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post Jan 3 2023, 11:06 PM
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Very good! Too bad that albedo markings may have faded considerably by now, but it may be useful.

(in case the subject of this post is not clear, it's about a dark marking I suggested might be from the InSight cruise stage impact. It appeared on a CTX image taken a few weeks after landing but was not visible in the previous image, some years earlier. But it is a bit further south than I would like it to be.)

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post Jan 5 2023, 03:37 PM
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I'm doing planning this HiRISE cycle and I just want to say how much I appreciate having the CTX image number called out and a graphic showing what I need to be centering the image on (some of these fresh impact sites can be hard to spot). So if it has faded already, at least the image will be centered on it.


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I was just looking at the new HiRISE image of the "InSight cruise stage impact candidate" as the description says. Unfortunately it is about 2 or 3 km too far west and misses the feature I had described.

https://viewer.mars.asu.edu/planetview/inst...830_RED&T=2

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