Mission Insight team from POT in Mars decided to use his seismometer for longer than previously planned, although the lander would run out of power sooner as a result.
As the available power decreases every day, Earth Mission Control has rescheduled to maximize the scientific work they can do. The lander was planned to automatically turn off the seismometer, the last operational scientific instrument on Earth. in sightat the end of June to conserve power by surviving off the power their dust-laden solar arrays can generate until around December.
Instead, the team now plans to time the lander so that the seismometer can run longer, possibly until late August or early September. This will drain the lander’s batteries sooner and also drain the spacecraft, but may allow the seismometer to detect additional “marsquakes”.
“in sight He hasn’t finished teaching us yet. on the Mars.” — Laurie Gleizes, Director of Planetary Sciences at the University POT in Washington. “We’re going to get as much scientific information as we can before the lander is done.”
in sight (Internal study using seismic surveys, geodesy and heat transfer) carries out an extended mission after achieving its scientific goals. The lander has recorded more than 1,300 earthquakes since landing. Mars in 2018, providing information that allowed scientists to measure the depth and composition of the crust, mantle and core Mars. Using its other instruments, InSight has recorded invaluable weather data, explored the ground beneath the lander, and studied the remnants of Earth’s ancient magnetic field. Mars.
safe mode off
All instruments, except for the seismometer, are already off. Like other spaceships Mars, Insight It has a fail-safe system that automatically activates “safe mode” in threatening situations and disables all but the most essential functions, allowing engineers to assess the situation. Low power consumption and temperatures outside of the specified limits may trigger Safe Mode.
To keep the seismometer running as long as possible, the mission team disables the power failure protection system. in sight. While this will allow the instrument to operate longer, it leaves the lander exposed to sudden and unexpected events that ground controllers won’t have time to react to.
“The goal is to bring scientific data to the point where in sight can’t operate at all, instead saving power and operating the lander for no scientific benefit,” said Chuck Scott, InSight Project Manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. POT. (Europe Press)
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