 On January 7th, NASA's Insight Lander on Mars entered a save mode after a regional dust storm blocked sunlight, making it solar panels redundant for about a month until normal operations resumed over the weekend. But sadly, normal operations may not be able to be held for long as the dust on the solar arrays are severely limiting the electricity that can be generated. In the summer of 2021, the lifespan of the Lander was predicted to last until spring 2022, but that has been pushed out slightly, but not by very far. In fact, we could only have a minimum of four months left with Insight. Unlike the rover spirit and opportunity, the solar arrays aren't cleaned by atmospheric activity, but the team working on the mission have still been working out ways to try and increase the power throughput. One procedure is getting the robotic arm to dig up some of the Martian soil and then drop it up wind of the arrays so that the grains will bounce off the panels and increase the generation capability by one to three percent.