Article 5JMPX Covered in Martian Muck, NASA's InSight Lander Tries to Tidy Itself Up

Covered in Martian Muck, NASA's InSight Lander Tries to Tidy Itself Up

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Isaac Schultz
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The dust piled up everywhere. Pushed around by the Martian winds, it stifled the InSight lander, whose solar panels-the source of its power-have been coated in red grime. Now, NASA has announced a step in the right direction for the sedentary probe: By commanding it to drop dirt on top of the dust, they managed to...

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