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…
NASA InSight Lander News
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…
Scientists Analyze Marsquakes To Determine the Structure of Mars’ Crust
Based on the analysis of marsquakes recorded by NASA’s InSight mission, the structure of Mars’ crust has now been determined in absolute numbers for the…
NASA’s InSight Mission Reveals the Detailed Internal Structure of Mars
Using information obtained from around a dozen earthquakes detected on Mars by the Very Broad Band SEIS seismometer, developed in France, the international team of…
Surviving on Mars: NASA’s InSight Lander Uses Martian Sand To Give Itself a Power Boost
To clean a bit of dust from one of its solar panels, NASA’s InSight lander trickled sand above the panel. The wind-borne sand grains then…
Seismicity on Mars Full of Surprises – More Than 500 Marsquakes Detected by InSight Lander in First Year
The SEIS seismometer package from the Mars InSight lander has collected its first continuous Martian year of data, revealing some surprises among the more than…
Marsquake! NASA’s InSight Detects Two Sizable Quakes on Mars
NASA’s InSight lander used a scoop on its robotic arm to begin trickling soil over the cable connecting its seismometer to the spacecraft on March…
InSight Challenges: Mars Dust Forces NASA Changes to Keep the Lander Safe
As dust collects on the solar panels and winter comes to Elysium Planitia, the team is following a plan to reduce science operations in order…
NASA InSight’s “Mole” Ends Its Journey on Mars – But the Mission Is Far From Over
The heat probe hasn’t been able to gain the friction it needs to dig, but the mission has been granted an extension to carry on…
NASA Extends Exploration for Juno and InSight Planetary Science Missions
As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon and on to Mars, the agency’s quest to seek answers about our solar system and…