InSight

A Marsquake Reveals Why Mars has Two Very Different Hemispheres

Even with all we've learned about Mars in recent decades, the planet is still mysterious. Most of the mystery revolves…

2 weeks ago

NASA is Keeping an Eye on InSight from Space

The InSight Lander arrived on Mars in 2018 to study the planet's interior. Its mission ended prematurely in December 2022…

1 month ago

Scientists Have Figured out why Martian Soil is so Crusty

On November 26th, 2018, NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission landed on Mars. This…

3 months ago

A Gravity Map of Mars Uncovers Subsurface Mysteries

A team of scientists presented a new gravity map of Mars at the Europlanet Science Congress 2024. The map shows…

5 months ago

Mars Has Lots of Water, But It’s Out of Reach

Mars was once wet, but now its surface is desiccated. Its meagre atmosphere contains only a tiny trace amount of…

6 months ago

Basketball-Sized Meteorites Strike the Surface of Mars Every Day

NASA's InSight Mars Lander faced some challenges during its time on the red planet's surface. Its mole instrument struggled to…

7 months ago

Marsquakes Can Help Us Find Water on the Red Planet

Earth is a seismically active planet, and scientists have figured out how to use seismic waves from Earthquakes to probe…

8 months ago

Mars InSight Has One Last Job: Getting Swallowed by Dust on the Red Planet

Normally you don't want dust to get into your spacecraft. That was certainly true for the InSight mission to Mars,…

9 months ago

Mars Still Has Liquid Rock Near its Core

Why doesn’t Mars have a magnetic field? If it did, the planet would be protected from cosmic radiation and charged…

1 year ago

“The Big One”: The Most Powerful Marsquake Ever Detected

A new paper in the Geophysical Research Letters explains how the largest recorded seismic event on Mars provided evidence for…

1 year ago