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Archives for December 2022

2022: a space yearbook

There was a lot going on in the space industry this year — here are some of the highlights.

Jackie Appel
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
NASA’s InSight lander preemptively tweets its own eulogy.

It landed on Mars in 2018 to detect marsquakes — rumblings in the planet’s crust. But now, the robot seismologist is running low on power and sent what may be its final image of the red planet’s surface. While InSight surpassed its two-year primary mission, it’s still hard not to feel sad for the lil’ guy in its final hours. You did good bud.