“Dead Bus” – NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After 4 Years on Red Planet
After more than four years on the Red Planet, NASA mission managers have concluded that the solar-powered InSight lander has run out of energy. NASA’s…
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Death by Dust: Game Over for NASA’s InSight Mars Lander?
We have known for a while that the end was near for NASA’s Mars InSight lander, as the spacecraft’s power supply continued to dwindle from…
Newly Formed Craters Located on Mars
These craters provide fascinating clues regarding the formation and evolution of the planet’s interior and atmosphere. Four new craters created by impacts on the surface…
Seismic Waves Reveal Surprising New Information About Mars
Researchers have observed seismic waves traveling throughout the surface of a planet other than Earth for the first time after two large meteorite impacts on…
The End Is Nigh: NASA Prepares To Say “Farewell” to History-Making Mars InSight Lander
A closer look at what goes into wrapping up the mission as the InSight spacecraft’s power supply continues to dwindle. The end is nigh for…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Red Planet
NASA’s InSight lander felt the ground shake during the impact while cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the cavernous new crater from space. Last…
Still Alive! NASA’s InSight Lander Waits Out Martian Dust Storm
InSight’s team is taking steps to help the solar-powered lander continue operating for as long as possible. Recently, NASA’s InSight mission, which is expected to…
Listen to Space Rocks Crash Into Mars – Recorded by NASA’s InSight Lander
NASA’s InSight “Hears” Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars SEIS, the Mars lander’s seismometer, has picked up vibrations from four separate impacts in the past…
Surprise, Surprise: Subsurface Water On Mars Defies Expectations
Physics connects seismic data to properties of rocks and sediments. A new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has uncovered a couple…
New Life: NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Science Operations
The InSight mission’s team has chosen to operate its seismometer longer than previously planned, although the lander will run out of power sooner as a…
Almost Lights Out: See NASA’s InSight Mars Lander’s Final Selfie
NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The lander is covered…
Days Are Numbered: Power Levels Diminishing for NASA’s Marsquake Hunting InSight Lander
Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to a close around the end of this year. NASA’s InSight…
NASA’s InSight Records Monster Quake on Mars – The Largest Ever Detected on Another Planet
Estimated to be magnitude 5, the quake is the strongest ever detected on another planet. NASA’s InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever…
Huge Mars Dust Storm Sends NASA’s InSight Lander Into Safe Mode
Updated Febuary 15, 2022, at 2:35 p.m. PST (5:35 p.m. EST): Several weeks after the end of a dust storm on Mars, the solar panels…
NASA’s Mars Insight Lander Uses Wind-Induced Vibrations To Reveal the Red Planet’s Subsurface Layers
Seismic data collected in Elysium Planitia, the second largest volcanic region on Mars, suggest the presence of a shallow sedimentary layer sandwiched between lava flows…
Solar Conjunction: NASA’s Mars Fleet Lies Low With Sun Between Earth and Red Planet
The missions will continue collecting data about the Red Planet, though engineers back on Earth will stop sending commands to them until mid-October. NASA will…
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Detects Three Big Marsquakes
The lander cleared enough dust from one solar panel to keep its seismometer on through the summer, allowing scientists to study the three biggest quakes…
Interior of Mars Revealed by NASA InSight Lander’s Seismic Observations
The first direct seismic observations from NASA’s InSight lander, presented in three studies in this issue, provide clues to the composition of Mars. Researchers across…
