By Paul Scott Anderson, on November 18th, 2020
Artist’s illustration of the Perseverance rover on Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, is now less than 100 days away from its landing in Jezero Crater on Mars (94 days at the time of this writing). The rover is currently just over 177 million miles (285 million kilometers) from its destination, […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 6th, 2020
The InSight mission launches into the fog at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on 5 May 2018. Photo: NASA
Three weeks from now, on 30 July, the rumble of an Atlas V RD-180 engine and the staccato crackle of four solid-fueled boosters at Space Launch Complex (SLC)-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on March 23rd, 2020
The Perseverance rover undergoing processing at a payload servicing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 14, 2020. Photo Credit: NASA
NASA’s Perseverance rover just reached big another milestone in its preparations for launch to Mars this summer. Key components of the rover’s sample handling system have now been installed. This system will […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on February 27th, 2020
Artist’s concept of InSight on Mars, with layers in the subsurface and dust devils in the background. Image Credit: IPGP/Nicolas Sarter
Mars is beginning to reveal its innermost secrets, thanks to NASA’s InSight lander. The newest findings, about subsurface marsquakes, unusual magnetic signals and dust devils in the atmosphere, have been published in six […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on October 31st, 2019
Image from InSight showing the “mole” heat probe (the tube on the left) after it jumped about halfway back out of the hole it made while digging. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Update – Nov. 1, 2019: NASA InSight just tweeted that the mole appears to be stable and more images are being taken to try […]
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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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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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By Paul Scott Anderson, on September 27th, 2019
Artist’s conception of the InSight lander as seen from above. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mars is usually thought of as pretty much a dead world, geologically-speaking. But NASA’s InSight lander is finding that may not be exactly true. Some early results from InSight’s investigations of the planet’s interior have shown evidence for an oddly pulsating […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on July 25th, 2019
The Mars 2020 rover under construction. The Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) will be inserted into the rear end of the rover between the panels with gold tubing, called heat exchangers. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s new Mars 2020 rover is now only about a year away from the start of its mission, and another […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on December 20th, 2018
View of InSight’s seismometer after it had been successfully placed on the Martian surface on Dec. 19, 2018. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s InSight lander has been busy in its first couple weeks on the surface of Mars, testing out the deployment of some of its instruments and scanning its surroundings with its cameras. And now, […]
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