NASA's InSight Enters SAFE MODE During Regional Mars Dust Storm on MARS
NASA's InSight lander is stable and sending health data from Mars to Earth after going into safe mode Friday, Jan. 7, following a large, regional dust storm that reduced the sunlight reaching its solar panels.
The mission's team reestablished contact with InSight Jan. 10, finding that its power was holding steady and, while low, was unlikely to be draining the lander's batteries.
Drained batteries are believed to have caused the end of NASA's Opportunity rover during an epic series of dust storms that blanketed the Red Planet in 2018.Even before this recent dust storm, dust had been accumulating on InSight's solar panels, reducing the lander's power supply.
The whirlwinds and gusts of dust storms have helped to clear solar panels over time, as with the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rover missions.
InSight's engineers are hopeful they will be able to command the lander to exit safe mode next week.
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Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/
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