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The InSight space probe rests here

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In the center of this photograph, taken from space on October 23, 2024 by NASA’s MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter), in orbit around Mars since 2006, you can see the InSight space probe perched on a point on the ground Martian, where it landed in 2018.

NASA’s InSight successfully completed its mission, managing, among other things, to detect Martian earthquakes for the first time.

In 2022, as a result of the dust accumulated on its solar panels that prevented its batteries from being properly recharged, it ran out of power and stopped communicating with Earth. Since then, it has lain silent at that point on the surface of the Red Planet. (Fountain: NCYT by Amazings)

(Photo: NASA)

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