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NASA says its InSight lander has detected over 450 ‘marsquakes’
Marsquakes are more common but less intense than NASA thought. That's one of the things the agency has revealed in the six papers it recently published on InSight's findings since it landed on the red planet. Apparently, InSight's Seismic Experiment...
NASA’s InSight probe is still struggling to crack the surface of Mars
It's been a rough few weeks on Mars for NASA's InSight lander. After overcoming a major hurdle and getting its drill running again a few weeks ago, a new problem has arisen - its heat probe has popped right out of the soil.
NASA’s InSight lander can finally dig a hole for its Mars heat probe
NASA's InSight lander was supposed be digging a hole so a probe (above) could measure the heat escaping from Mars' interior, but it hasn't made much progress since work got started in February -- it hadn't even finished burying itself. At last, it's...
NASA shares the odd sounds from its Mars seismometer
NASA's InSight lander is providing a veritable soundtrack for Mars. The agency has posted a handful of recordings from the SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) that give a feel for Mars' activity. Two of them are "representative" marsqu...
NASA’s InSight lander may have recorded a marsquake
It might not have taken long for NASA's InSight lander to capture a marsquake. The machine's seismometer recorded trembling on April 6th that seems to have come from within Mars, rather than an above-ground source like the wind or InSight itself. A...
NASA is giving us daily weather reports from Mars
NASA says its new Mars weather website will be "geeky fun for meteorologists." For the rest of us, it's a daily reminder that Mars is ridiculously cold. The website shares a daily weather report with temperature, atmospheric pressure and wind speed c...
NASA’s InSight Mission Places its First Instrument on Mars
InSight has reached a major milestone on December 19 as the new NASA mission successfully places its first instrument onto the surface of Mars. Latest images show that InSight’s seismometer has been...
NASA’s InSight Mission Places its First Instrument on Mars
InSight has reached a major milestone on December 19 as the new NASA mission successfully places its first instrument onto the surface of Mars. Latest images show that InSight’s seismometer has been...