<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Hi all…<br><br> HAPPY NEW YEAR…I hope everyone had a wonderful time…I was on the beach, enjoying the warm weather, fireworks, and happy to be home for the Holidays….it has been an amazing year with full travel, no concern over Covid…it really seems covid is no longer a factor in planning travel as most countries have lifted all requirements…my luggage arrived 4 days after I got home…I really thought, it’s Norway…I never had any doubts…looking back on last year, what an adventure…it never ceases to amaze me that the time spent with the kids is always magical….while looking back at last year I was surprised at how many trips I made, the thousands of the kids that shared time when going in, the pandemic was still prominent in everyone’s mind.</font><div><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">I want to thank everyone, especially the teachers, who do so much to support the visits…I could not do this without the support and flexibility of the teachers…they have to be willing to allow kids to leave the classroom, they have to adjust the lesson plans, find ways to let the kids spend 2 hours…it is not a simple process…I try to have one person to coordinate everything in each city…I don’t want to be involved in the process…I always say…plan anything you want…I will do it…it does not matter, you can not give me too much…as a result, when I get to a city I do whatever they ask…even if they tell me ahead of time, the schedule, I really don’t pay attention…so it is always and adventure…it shows the trust I have in those who agree to organize it for me…every single one has been amazing…I am eternally grateful…</font></div><div><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">On to 2023…already have a full schedule…my idea to cut back on trips seems to be unrealistic…one option it to cut the time of visits from 3 weeks to 2…although once in a country, 3 weeks is great…we will see how it unfolds…</font></div><div><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><br></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"> We have to stay positive and always be thankful… remembering to do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know (I always say this, we all need to take it to heart…hugs and smiles. 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overflow-wrap: break-word; clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.05em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.225; -webkit-hyphens: auto; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span style="font-size: 26px;">Strong Solar Flare Erupts from Sun</span></h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.05em; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 1.225; -webkit-hyphens: auto; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 7:57 p.m. EDT on Jan. 5, 2023. NASA’s </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/main/index.html" style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 122, 204); text-decoration: none; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px;">Solar Dynamics Observatory</a><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event.</span></h1><div><figure id="attachment_206" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-206" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; width: 400px;"><font size="3" style="color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; margin-bottom: 0px;"><img class="wp-image-206 size-full" alt="Gif image of a strong flare captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The image is zoomed in to the lower left limb of the Sun where the flare occurs. A big bright burst of light flows from the Sun where the flare occurs. Other smaller rays of light and flowing color emanate from the Sun indicating other solar activity. .gif" height="400" style="box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; max-width: 100%; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin: 0px;" src="cid:964F6712-ABBD-4258-94F1-E7B09B0226A8"></span></font><figcaption id="caption-attachment-206" class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.615385; padding-top: 0.538462em;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash on the left picture– on Jan. 5, 2023. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and which is colorized in AIA 171 orange. Credit: NASA/SDO</span></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts. </font><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: large;">This flare is classified as an X1.2 flare. X-class denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides more information about its strength. </span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: large;">To see how such space weather may affect Earth, please visit </span><a href="https://spaceweather.gov/" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 122, 204); text-decoration: none; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px;">NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center</a><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: large;">, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, watches, warnings, and alerts. NASA works as a research arm of the nation’s </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/spaceweather" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 122, 204); text-decoration: none; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px;">space weather</a><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: large;"> effort. NASA observes the Sun and our space environment constantly with a fleet of spacecraft that study everything from the Sun’s activity to the solar atmosphere, and to the particles and magnetic fields in the space surrounding Earth.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: large;"><br></span></p><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: 26px;">NASA Science To Be Featured at American Astronomical Society Meeting</span></h1><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><img class="article-banner-img" alt="Image of NGC2024 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.jpeg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" src="cid:E5F3ECDF-3CEF-4929-926B-3A384E7BA251"></p></div></div><font face="Gill Sans" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" color="#ff2600" size="5"></font></div><div><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"> </font><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Experts will discuss new research from NASA missions at the 241<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">st</span> meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), on topics ranging from the universe’s early galaxies to planets outside our solar system. The meeting will take place Jan. 8-12 at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle.</font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">Scientists and agency leaders will present the latest developments in astrophysics during various press conferences, scientific sessions, and town halls. Press conferences – highlighting results enabled by NASA missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope (also called “Webb” or “JWST”), Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) – will stream live to the public on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/AASPressOffice" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">AAS Press Office YouTube channel</a>.</font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">In addition to press conferences, NASA highlights for registered attendees include:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">NASA Town Hall</strong>: Monday, Jan. 9, 12:45 p.m. PST</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">James Webb Space Telescope Town Hall: </strong>Monday, Jan. 9, 6:30 p.m. PST</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">“NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) Initiative” Town Hall</strong>: Tuesday, Jan. 10, 12:45 p.m. PST</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Town Hall: </strong>Tuesday, Jan. 10, 6:30 p.m. PST</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The Heliophysics Big Year in 2023 and 2024” Town Hall: </strong>Wednesday, Jan. 11, 12:45 p.m. PST</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Plenary and award lectures </strong>by NASA scientists discussing the Webb mission, the future of exoplanet and galaxy research, and the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><a href="https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/aas-2023-hyperwall" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(49, 122, 185);">Expert talks</a> at the NASA Exhibit Booth throughout the week will cover topics including early galaxy, exoplanet, and solar system research with Webb; Hubble in the era of Webb; discoveries from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) after its first year in space; updates on current and future missions; and NASA’s Year of Open Science, heliophysics, and astrobiology.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">More info: <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-science-to-be-featured-at-american-astronomical-society-meeting">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-science-to-be-featured-at-american-astronomical-society-meeting</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; 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"The comet's white dust tail is visible to the upper left and much shorter. The green glow is the comet's coma, caused by glowing carbon gas," NASA said..jpeg" class="x1ey2m1c xds687c x5yr21d x10l6tqk x17qophe x13vifvy xh8yej3 xl1xv1r" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="cid:55C19FEB-4227-4F84-B760-6ABE9143BCE4"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A bright green comet, known as C/2022 E3, hasn't come so close to Earth since the last ice age about 50,000 years ago, according to NASA. It's been </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><a tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152); cursor: pointer;"></a></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">getting brighter as it approaches our planet, and may be visible to the naked eye later this month </span><span class="x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xhhsvwb xat24cr xgzva0m xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od" style="width: 16px; display: inline-flex; margin: 0px 1px; height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="16" alt="☄️.png" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="cid:5D7F9E3F-FC75-4D83-8991-1094DCCE07AD" style="border: 0px;"></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Here's how to see it:</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://bit.ly/3VWAHim?fbclid=IwAR3iCT4V5RZtqgyGJdxtk8cr4Q6ox6cTKTNwyUz59ENqFlFKtSSoTh4-kfE" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank" style="color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; text-align: inherit; padding: 0px; outline: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; touch-action: manipulation; display: inline;"> bit.ly/3VWAHi</a></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">m </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="5"><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10637968&msgid=65717&act=D145&c=1862074&pid=127106&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fmars.nasa.gov%2Fnews%2F9323%2Fnasas-perseverance-rover-deposits-first-sample-on-mars-surface%2F%3Futm_source%3DiContact%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnasas-mars-public-engagement-team%26utm_content%3D20230105-MarsNewsletter&cf=57401&v=c2c7916d361171ab59d07a855ea1e2dc1c1f71037c49f990bc3853b40aec65c4" target="_blank"><strong>Perseverance Deposits First Samples on Martian Surface</strong></a><strong> </strong></font></p><table class="fusionResponsiveContent" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center" style="text-align: right; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px auto; width: 700px; table-layout: fixed; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody><tr><td style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none transparent; padding: 10px 0px;"><table class="fusionResponsiveContent" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width: 700px; table-layout: fixed;"><tbody><tr><th valign="top" class="fusionResponsiveColumn" data-fusion-class="" style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none transparent; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; width: 700px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;"><div data-aqa="block-image" style="overflow: hidden;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td class="null" style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="margin: auto; width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><th style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-right-width: 4px; border-left-width: 4px; border-style: none solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-left-color: transparent; display: block;"><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10637968&msgid=65717&act=D145&c=1862074&pid=127106&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fmars.nasa.gov%2Fnews%2F9323%2Fnasas-perseverance-rover-deposits-first-sample-on-mars-surface%2F%3Futm_source%3DiContact%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnasas-mars-public-engagement-team%26utm_content%3D20230105-MarsNewsletter&cf=57401&v=c2c7916d361171ab59d07a855ea1e2dc1c1f71037c49f990bc3853b40aec65c4"><img src="cid:A4EF88ED-0CEA-4CD7-80CD-429D8BD2AEC6" class="fusionResponsiveImage" alt="Photo from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover shows the Mars surface, peppered with small rocks, in an area mostly under the shadow of the rover itself. Horizontally near the center lies a sample tube about the size of a whiteboard marker. In addition to a mainly matte white body, parts of the tube appear silver, gold and gray in certain areas..jpeg" height="auto" title="Photo from NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover shows the Mars surface, peppered with small rocks, in an area mostly under the shadow of the rover itself. Horizontally near the center lies a sample tube about the size of a whiteboard marker. In addition to a mainly matte white body, parts of the tube appear silver, gold and gray in certain areas." style="text-align: left; display: block; width: 692px; height: auto; margin: auto;"></a></th></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><div data-fusion-class="" style="margin: 10px 10px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none transparent;"><p style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">As Perseverance completes its first full Martian year on the Red Planet, the rover has laid down its first five tubes filled with samples of Mars material. The delivery marks a historic step in the joint NASA/European Space Agency campaign to safely return Mars samples to Earth.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font color="#000000" size="4"><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10637968&msgid=65717&act=D145&c=1862074&pid=127106&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fmars.nasa.gov%2Fnews%2F9323%2Fnasas-perseverance-rover-deposits-first-sample-on-mars-surface%2F%3Futm_source%3DiContact%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnasas-mars-public-engagement-team%26utm_content%3D20230105-MarsNewsletter&cf=57401&v=c2c7916d361171ab59d07a855ea1e2dc1c1f71037c49f990bc3853b40aec65c4" target="_blank">Read About the Historic First Dropoff</a> | <a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10637968&msgid=65717&act=D145&c=1862074&pid=127106&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fmars.nasa.gov%2Fmars-rock-samples%2F%3Futm_source%3DiContact%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnasas-mars-public-engagement-team%26utm_content%3D20230105-MarsNewsletter&cf=57401&v=66ec26b62a2c15df1ba7696fd029308dd3a7f19f65cd8c2b7dd90405077c57aa" target="_blank">More on Each Sample</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10637968&msgid=65717&act=D145&c=1862074&pid=127106&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fmars.nasa.gov%2Fnews%2F9321%2Fnasa-retires-insight-mars-lander-mission-after-years-of-science%2F%3Fsite%3Dinsight%26utm_source%3DiContact%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnasas-mars-public-engagement-team%26utm_content%3D20230105-MarsNewsletter&cf=57401&v=0f35f719668cbc7678ef85bcc5a5a54c3126580a41ad5c0ee236b7622e88a5f0" target="_blank"><strong><font face="HelveticaNeue" size="5" color="#000000">Fond Farewell to the Mars InSight Lander</font></strong></a></p><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" color="#ff2600">The landing will always have a very special place in my heart…I did a presentation at a university in Denmark…the landing was later in the evening…I went with Birgitte, who arranged the schedule, and about 15 students to dinner in a beautiful restaurant, decorated for Christmas, where we set up a lap top and ”watched" the landing in this magical setting...</font></p><div data-aqa="block-image" style="font-size: 12px; overflow: hidden;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td class="null" style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="margin: auto; width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><th style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-right-width: 4px; border-left-width: 4px; border-style: none solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-left-color: transparent; display: block;"><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10637968&msgid=65717&act=D145&c=1862074&pid=127106&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fmars.nasa.gov%2Fnews%2F9321%2Fnasa-retires-insight-mars-lander-mission-after-years-of-science%2F%3Fsite%3Dinsight%26utm_source%3DiContact%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnasas-mars-public-engagement-team%26utm_content%3D20230105-MarsNewsletter&cf=57401&v=0f35f719668cbc7678ef85bcc5a5a54c3126580a41ad5c0ee236b7622e88a5f0"><img src="cid:F48ECCDF-2D6D-4137-83CA-C8EC672FAF7F" class="fusionResponsiveImage" alt="Animated image sequence of several photos from NASA’s InSight lander shows a sunset on Mars, with part of the lander’s robotic arm visible in the lower right. Over several frames, the grayish-tan sky dims over a darkened desert landscape, as the distant sun dips behind the horizon..gif" height="auto" title="Animated image sequence of several photos from NASA’s InSight lander shows a sunset on Mars, with part of the lander’s robotic arm visible in the lower right. Over several frames, the grayish-tan sky dims over a darkened desert landscape, as the distant sun dips behind the horizon." style="display: block; width: 692px; height: auto; margin: auto;"></a></th></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; width: 700px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px none;"><div data-fusion-class="" style="margin: 10px 10px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none transparent;"><p style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"></p><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4">After more than doubling its design lifetime, InSight's batteries have run out of energy. Although the Sun has set on its surface mission, InSight’s dramatic science discoveries will live on, and its four years of data will be studied by scientists for years to come.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font color="#000000" face="Gill Sans" size="4"><a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10637968&msgid=65717&act=D145&c=1862074&pid=127106&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fmars.nasa.gov%2Fnews%2F9321%2Fnasa-retires-insight-mars-lander-mission-after-years-of-science%2F%3Fsite%3Dinsight%26utm_source%3DiContact%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnasas-mars-public-engagement-team%26utm_content%3D20230105-MarsNewsletter&cf=57401&v=0f35f719668cbc7678ef85bcc5a5a54c3126580a41ad5c0ee236b7622e88a5f0" target="_blank">Read More</a> | <a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10637968&msgid=65717&act=D145&c=1862074&pid=127106&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fmars.nasa.gov%2Finsight%2Fmission%2Fscience%2Fresults%2F%3Futm_source%3DiContact%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnasas-mars-public-engagement-team%26utm_content%3D20230105-MarsNewsletter&cf=57401&v=e3d539829fa1a5e80fc6ba1f9139b4767864b553d17f2fe13eca278ce5454769" target="_blank">Science Highlights</a> | <a href="https://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=10637968&msgid=65717&act=D145&c=1862074&pid=127106&destination=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.nasa.gov%2F3PkH4Ko&cf=57401&v=ce2552c12aeb4da7654be1744d581814e0d4dc64df075980564db8f5b40ab5c1" target="_blank">Send InSight Team a Postcard</a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><img alt="NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission..jpeg" id="main_image" src="cid:16BA0B2C-D294-4752-A38F-E8E7205F1B86" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 683.375px; max-width: 100%; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.639999px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Montserrat, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.639999px;"></span></p><figcaption class="main_image_caption" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.8em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.8em 0px 1em; line-height: 1.4em;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">InSight's Final Selfie</b>: NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. <a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/26761/?site=insight" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;">Download image ›</a></font></p></figcaption></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></th></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></body></html>