In May 2022, members of NASA’s InSight Mars lander team announced that power levels on the lander were diminishing and that they expected the lander to become inoperative by December 2022. However, InSight’s teams want to push the lander to do as much as possible in its final months and have chosen to operate the lander’s seismometer for longer than previously planned.
Meanwhile, NASA’s Curiosity rover, closing in on its 10-year landing anniversary on Mars, continues to drive around Gale Crater and investigate interesting rock and surface formations — providing scientists with hints to what Mars’ ancient past may have looked like.