NASA's InSight Mars lander is in emergency hibernation. If it can't save its batteries, it could die.

NASA's InSight Mars lander is in emergency hibernation. If it can't save its batteries, it could die.
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An illustration shows InSight with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. NASA/JPL-Caltech
InSight is in hibernation mode to keep its electronics warm through the Martian winter.
But a dust storm could tip the scales and drain InSight's batteries, possibly killing it for good.
NASA's $800 million Mars lander is in an energy crisis.
InSight, which landed in a Martian plain called Elysium Planitia in 2018, has detected more than 500 Mars quakes, felt more than 10,000 dust devils pass by, and started to measure the planet's core.

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