News Archive / Tagged: InSight

• InSight Mars lander nears end of life as dust coats solar panels

  Cullen DesforgesMay 23rd, 2022

  NASA’s Martian quake hunter InSight is reaching the end of its mission as dust on the spacecraft’s solar panels are causing it to slowly lose power.

• Results from Mars InSight lander show Mars has a molten center

  Theresa CrossAugust 2nd, 2021

  Using data collected by NASA's Mars InSight lander, which has been on the red planet since 2018, researchers have confirmed the planet's center to be molten.

• NASA’s InSight Mars lander solar panels cleared of some dust

  Cullen DesforgesJune 18th, 2021

  NASA’s InSight Mars lander cleaned some dust off its solar panels using a counter-intuitive technique, which resulted in a boost in power production.

• Mars’ magnetic field is 10 times stronger than previously thought

  Laurel KornfeldApril 14th, 2020

  Data collected by NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander on Mars has surprised scientists by indicating the Red Planet has a magnetic field 10 times stronger than previously suspected.

• InSight dust cleanings could provide new science

  Jim SharkeyMay 16th, 2019

  Martian weather events like global dust storms can end missions operating on the Red Planet, but they can also be beneficial.

• NASA’s InSight lander views Martian sunrise, sunset

  Jim SharkeyMay 6th, 2019

  The InSight Mars lander recently trained one of its cameras on the Martian horizon, capturing a series of sunrise and sunset images.

• Marsquake detected by InSight lander’s seismometer

  Laurel KornfeldApril 24th, 2019

  A small tremor in the Martian interior was detected by a highly-sensitive seismometer placed on the Red Planet by NASA's InSight lander.

• Rock and a hard place: InSight experiment encounters setback

  Jim SharkeyMarch 7th, 2019

  Even successful robotic missions can encounter obstacles. This appears to be the case with NASA's Mars InSight lander and its self-hammering "mole."

• NASA’s InSight lander places heat probe on Martian surface

  Jim SharkeyFebruary 24th, 2019

  Having placed a heat probe on the surface, NASA's InSight Mars lander is one step closer to taking the temperature of the Red Planet's interior.

• MarCO CubeSats no longer communicating with Earth

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 7th, 2019

  Twin tiny satellites launched with NASA's Mars InSight lander have been out of touch with mission controllers on Earth for slightly over a month.

• Dome-shaped shield provides protection to InSight seismometer

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 6th, 2019

  The seismometer on NASA's Mars InSight mission was provided with a dome-shaped shield for protection from the planet's extreme temperature variations.

• InSight lander deploys seismometer on Mars

  Paul KnightlyJanuary 15th, 2019

  NASA's InSight Mars lander has been busy getting its suite of instruments prepared for regular use to explore the interior of the Red Planet.

• InSight team creates Martian rock garden, lander begins work

  Jim SharkeyDecember 22nd, 2018

  Using tools ranging from rakes and shovels to augmented reality headsets, engineers with NASA's Mars InSight mission have built a Martian rock garden which recreates the lander's new home on Mars. This allows engineers to practice placing science instrument on the surface using InSight's Earth-bound twin - ForeSight.

• NASA’s InSight lander flexes arm, ‘listens’ to Martian winds

  Jim SharkeyDecember 12th, 2018

  NASA's Mars InSight lander has been getting to known for its new home at Elysium Planitia and preparing for what it will be doing there. As it turns out, one of those things - is listening.

• MarCO CubeSats perform successfully during InSight landing

  Laurel KornfeldNovember 28th, 2018

  Two CubeSats successfully monitored InSight's entry, descent, and landing on Mars and returned data to Earth hours before NASA's Mars orbiters came into position to transmit the data.