Sad ending! NASA's InSight spacecraft set to be killed on Mars

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It's a tale of a tragic end and a huge loss to humanity. NASA's InSight spacecraft is going to die soon. In a touching statement, the spacecraft said that the day is coming when it will fall silent forever, ending its nearly four years' journey on Mars. The Insight lander has been on a mission to reveal secrets of the Red Planet's interior. Now, the spacecraft's power generation capabilities have declined as dust has accumulated on its solar panels in such massive quantities, it is not being able to create enough power to keep itself alive. The NASA team has taken various steps to keep it alive as long as possible.

Informing about the same, NASA InSight itself tweeted, "The day is coming when I'll fall silent, ending my nearly four Earth years (over two Mars years) of studying the Red Planet. As my time winds down on Mars, my team is helping make sure scientists can get the most out of everything I've gathered."

NASA will declare the mission over when InSight misses two consecutive communication sessions with the spacecraft orbiting Mars, part of the Mars Relay Network – but only if the cause of the missed communication is the lander itself, said network manager Roy Gladden of JPL. After that, NASA's Deep Space Network will listen for a time, just in case. There will be no measures to re-establish contact with InSight.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) informed via a report that the end of the mission is expected to come in the next few weeks. "But even as the tightknit 25-to-30-member operations team – a small group compared to other Mars missions – continues to squeeze the most they can out of InSight (short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport), they've also begun taking