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NASA is officially saying goodbye to the Mars InSight lander after a four-year mission

NASA has formally decommissioned its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe designed specifically to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, US space agency announced on Wednesday. JPL engineers will continue to listen for a signal from the lander, just in case, but hearing from Insight again is unlikely, NASA said.