The Mars Insight Lander Will Devote All Remaining Battery Power To Quake Listening...

Instead of trying to limp through one more Barsoomian winter, and perhaps never restart. . . the JPL /NASA team has decided instead to purposefully drain the batteries between now and mid-August, so that the team may listen closely for any additional Mars-quakes.

There will be enough juice left to transmit any new quake reports back to Jasoom, but by mid-August or so, we will be at "end of mission" -- here's that story:

. . .[T]he team now plans to program the lander so that the seismometer can operate longer, perhaps until the end of August or into early September. Doing so will discharge the lander’s batteries sooner and cause the spacecraft to run out of power at that time as well, but it might enable the seismometer to detect additional marsquakes.

“InSight hasn’t finished teaching us about Mars yet,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division in Washington. “We’re going to get every last bit of science we can before the lander concludes operations. . . .”

Now you know. Smiling into the sunshine here, with baby-girl. . . .

नमस्ते