NASA Makes Progress in Restoring InSight’s Malfunctioning Heat Probe

By Paul Scott Anderson, on October 14th, 2019

NASA’s InSight lander set its heat probe, called the Heat and Physical Properties Package (HP3) or “the mole,” on the Martian surface on Feb. 12, 2019. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DLR

NASA’s InSight mission on Mars has been incredibly successful so far, with new findings about magnetism in the crust, marsquakes and even possible evidence for […]

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NASA's InSight Lander 'Hears' Multiple Marsquakes and Other Odd Sounds

By Paul Scott Anderson, on October 4th, 2019

InSight imaged clouds moving overhead on April 25, 2019. The dome-covered seismometer, SEIS, is in the foreground. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

A few days ago, it was reported that NASA’s InSight lander had found evidence for an oddly pulsating magnetic field, a more magnetic crust than expected and – maybe – the existence of a […]

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NASA's InSight Spacecraft on Course for November 26 Landing

By Paul Scott Anderson, on November 22nd, 2018

Artist’s conception of InSight descending through the Martian atmosphere. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

On November 26, NASA’s InSight spacecraft will touch down in Elysium Planitia on Mars, where it will “peer” deep into the subsurface to study the planet’s interior geology. As of right now, InSight is on course for what hopefully will be […]

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NASA's InSight Mission to Mars Launches Through Ridiculous Fog So Nobody Saw It

By Mike Killian, on May 5th, 2018

Foggy liftoff this morning for the first planetary mission from the West Coast U.S., this is all anyone saw of anything as NASA’s InSight spacecraft took off for the next mission to land on Mars next November. Photo: NASA

NASA’s next highly-anticipated mission to land on Mars took off early this morning, May […]

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Landing Region Chosen for InSight at T-Minus One Year to Red Planet Launch

By Ken Kremer, on March 5th, 2015

In the weeks after NASA’s InSight mission reaches Mars in September 2016, the lander’s arm will lift two science instruments off the deck and place them onto the ground. This image shows testing of InSight’s robotic arm at JPL about two years before it will perform these tasks on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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NASA Selects Four Potential Mars Landing Sites for InSight Mission

By Mike Killian, on September 5th, 2013

NASA has selected four landing sites for the upcoming InSight mission to the Red Planet. Image Credit: NASA

In late November, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is expected to thunder away from Earth on a one-way trip to study the thin atmosphere of Mars, but the next mission to land on the Red Planet’s […]

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Scientists Create 3-D Image of Underground River Channels on Mars

By Mike Killian, on March 8th, 2013

This illustration schematically shows where the Shallow Radar instrument on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected flood channels that had been buried by lava flows in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Sapienza University of Rome/Smithsonian Institution/USGS

Using images captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) over the last few years, scientists […]

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