the insight mission team posted what are likely to be the last photos returned by the lander. these were taken on december 11.
for the last four years, insight has been a lonely sentinel on the vast plains of elysium planitia. the martian environment here is hostile, the slow fallout of dust slowly starving the lander of energy. before insight arrived, there were a million years of silence, and with the lander shutting down, the landscape will return to a million more.
