NASA spacecraft spots dead robot on Mars surface | Mashable.
NASA spacecraft spots dead robot on Mars surface
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| The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured a view of the retired InSight lander. Credit: NASA |
Mars is collecting artifacts.
Without the large, powerful camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which observes Martian terrain for past evidence of water and how the Red Planet is changing, we might miss it. But the craft captured the space agency's defunct InSight lander and surrounding landing site, slowly being blanketed in desert dust.
"Can you spot @NASAInSight?" NASA asked on X (formerly Twitter). "The retired lander was recently spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. By studying InSight's landing site over time, scientists can see how quickly dust accumulates, which helps estimate the age of other surface disturbances."
The InSight lander's mission ended in December 2022, after four productive years of investigating geologic activity on Mars. The NASA robot measured over 1,300 marsquakes, including a "monster" temblor, providing further evidence that Mars isn't nearly geologically dead. It analyzed Mars' core, and also beamed back daily weather reports.
Yet unlike NASA's Perseverance and Curiosity rovers, which are nuclear-powered, the InSight lander ran on solar power. Martian dust had expectedly whittled down the power of the lander by blanketing its solar panels in a thick layer of sediment. Eventually, its batteries died.
At the center of the image below is InSight. Looking closely, you can see its two deployed circular solar panels sandwiching the main body.
Other past Martian explorers also rest quietly in the Red Planet's global desert, including the Phoenix lander, Opportunity rover, and Ingenuity helicopter. NASA has spotted discarded landing gear and parachutes, too.
One day, perhaps, these relics of early Martian exploration will be protected, similar to national park sites on Earth today.
For now, InSight collects dust on the flat equatorial plains of Elysium Planitia.
So now we are littering on other planets too. No one safe from us.
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ReplyDeleteIs it Optimus prime ?
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ReplyDeletea battery can be dead, yet it's not alive either ☺️
Deletean end can be dead yet it was never alive
DeleteDead battery🤣
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ReplyDeleteIt was never alive
ReplyDeleteProbably one of transformers from dark moon
ReplyDeleteConsidering all the meanings for the word 'Dead' there are a lot of daft comments in here
ReplyDeleteFind a disabled spacecraft from another planet and the fun begins.
ReplyDeleteI bet that the aliens killed it 😱😱. 😂😂
ReplyDeleteAt least robots can't be stupid....
ReplyDeleteI thought this was the beginning of a pimple popping video.
ReplyDeletelol, was going to say that
DeleteDespite the use of language by Mashable(🙄), it’s probably one of the 6 offline rovers that earth sent up, which technically could be considered dead since their functions have ceased. Now tbh, today people say that their car died despite it not being organic in any way(other than the oil 🤷♂️ ). I think this is pretty cool though if they find a derelict ship stay the F away from it 🤣
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ReplyDeleteAnother fictional pic and story. If it was really there why would you not zoom in on it rather than showing a whole lot of nothing.
ReplyDeleteHmm! Nasa just likes to play with individual's minds. If the picture is showing the #Truth, which I doubt, It's a robot it doesn't have a life so it cannot be dead, offline maybe. Please use your words correctly to maximize the #TRUTH
ReplyDeletehey guys, a conspirationnist !
Deletecan batteries be dead then? Did you read the article, or just the sentence on the photograph?
DeleteIs it standing next to a sentient matress?
ReplyDeletePovo joga lixo até em Marte depois reclamam do planeta tá se destruindo afff
ReplyDeleteI wanna pop that blackhead 😂
ReplyDeleteНека го огледа по от близко,може да види надпис СССР .
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It's really just another Dollar General
ReplyDeleteO do filme, "Eu, Robô. Largaram em Marte com medo da IA
ReplyDeleteItu bukan robot la.. Itu cerek air panas aku.. Tertinggal masa berhenti rehat nak ke matahari kelmarin.. Sat nak pi ambik.. Tak perasan pulak rnr tu planet marikh
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ReplyDeleteIs it one of ours?
ReplyDeleteThey are trying to replace the understanding for humanity that a robot cannot be alive from the very beginning...
ReplyDeleteHow many zoomed in to see nothing
ReplyDeletetry reading the article.
Deletewhy would he do that when he could solely focus on the image and the title of the article?
Deletegood idea.... but so much is click bait.. I'm sure they found a robot 100%
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Deletethat nothing you zoomed into is still Mars, so not nothing.
Delete“Without the large, powerful camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which observes Martian terrain for past evidence of water and how the Red Planet is changing, we might miss it. But the craft captured the space agency's defunct InSight lander and surrounding landing site, slowly being blanketed in desert dust.”
yup
DeleteThe amount of people that read only headlines....
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ReplyDeleteThere is no proof for this..another farce!
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DeleteNuhuh is easier.
....😂😂😂sure it is a robot and in the upper right hand corner is a picture of Donald Trump chiseled in stone ... 😂😂😂
DeleteDecepticon or autobot?
ReplyDeleteHow do you know the robot was dead maybe it was his day off
ReplyDeleteWhat did it die of ?
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ReplyDeleteDEAD?
ReplyDeletedead as in zero battery life. Does anyone read between the lines anymore? I SeE HeAdLiNeS
Deletebless your heart.
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DeleteR2D2 ?
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ReplyDeleteHow do they know it's dead and not just sleeping?
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ReplyDeleteWhen we were buzy worried abt spreading of covid, China was buzy sending dead robots to space it seems
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ReplyDeleteCocking stories as a pretext to establish space military force. Paid mainstream propaganda machines are doing the same 🤣
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ReplyDeleteIt might just be napping.
ReplyDeleteIt was easy. I just needed to use find my robot on my Mac.
ReplyDeletePlot twist: it’s not ours!
ReplyDeleteIt was never alive!
ReplyDeleteyeah. Until you’ve seen mars Paris, you haven’t lived.
DeleteThey couldn’t strap a GoPro on the spacecraft, it’s 2024.
ReplyDeleteI can’t see a robot in the pic, but I’m sutr I see the image of Jesus. Then again maybe just a left over pizza
ReplyDeleteI suspect foul play.
ReplyDeletenot dead just need recharge
ReplyDeleteRobots dont live and can not die.....
ReplyDeleteElon could drop $20B to go change the batteries
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