InSight Mission to Mars Comes to an End

NASA's InSight mission to Mars successfully landed on the Red Planet in 2018 with the goal of studying the planet's deep interior and understanding how rocky planets like Earth formed. The spacecraft was equipped with a suite of scientific instruments, including a seismometer to measure marsquakes and a heat flow probe to measure the planet's heat flow.

However, after more than three years of gathering data and sending it back to Earth, the InSight spacecraft has stopped sending data and is no longer operational. NASA officials have announced that the mission has come to an end, and the spacecraft will remain on the surface of Mars as a stationary lander.

Despite the mission's premature end, the InSight mission was a success and provided valuable insights into the inner workings of Mars. The data collected by the spacecraft will continue to be analyzed by scientists for years to come, helping to further our understanding of the Red Planet and the early history of our solar system.