NASA’s Mars InSight Mission Has Died. The Internet Weeps.

Dec 21 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
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Saying goodbye is never easy, even when it’s directed toward a 794-pound Martian lander that no human has directly laid eyes on since 2018. Still, the internet is awash in obituaries for NASA’s InSight lander, the first spacecraft to document a marsquake, as it signed off for the last time. A NASA news release on Wednesday officially marked the end of the InSight mission, though the lander’s swan song began days earlier.

On Monday, the InSight mission’s official Twitter...

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