NASA’s longtime InSight Mars probe on the Red Planet has finally woken up from ‘safe mode’ after weeks of dust storms. The vehicle also delivered its first message after the storm.
NASA’s long-time Mars spacecraft InSight was forced into the Red Planet after an intense dust storm. from safe mode exited safely. Designed to study Mars in detail and solar-powered InSight entered safe mode on January 7 to save power. Then, with a new tweet, it was shared that the vehicle came out of safe mode as the dust storm began to subside. Also, with this tweet, we got the first information about the post-storm situation of the Red Planet.
The tweet was as follows: The sky seems to clear the hill, so trustworthy out of mode I got out and returned to more normal operations. I’ll wait to start doing more science until I know how much power I can generate when the storm subsides.
InSight is back to work
NASA’s mission manager Jet Propulsion Laboratory, earlier in the month of InSight He had stated that he would exit safe mode in about a week. This prediction turned out to be almost correct, and the vehicle returned safely to its mission.
The biggest challenge faced by InSight, which landed on the Red Planet in 2018, is that Mars is a dusty planet. The solar powered spacecraft is having a hard time because of this dust; It is currently running on reduced power due to dust accumulation on its panel. Engineers say off-road vehicle in 2021 using his robotic arm while succeeding in cleaning the dust from the solar panel NASAstates that such a procedure will become more difficult as its strength decreases.
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InSight can easily clean the dust on the solar panel, at least for now. But the Red Planet reached its furthest orbital distance from the sun last year, and seasonal dust cycles is also considered a threat. We will look forward to seeing what the InSight tool will do in the future.