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NASA declares InSight probe dead after 4 years studying marsquakes [i]A robotic probe sent to study the interior of Mars has met its end after more than four years collecting data on the surface of the Red Planet. NASA declared its InSight mission over on Wednesday (Dec. 21), six days after the lander ceased responding to communications from Earth. Mission controllers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California were unable to contact the three-legged probe after two consecutive attempts, leading them to conclude that its solar-powered batteries had run out of energy — a state engineers refer to as a "dead bus."[/i]
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