Insight Lander
Engineers are Still Troubleshooting Why Mars InSight’s Mole is Stuck and Won’t Go Any Deeper
NASA's Mars InSight Lander was always a bit of a tricky endeavour. The stationary lander has one chance to get…
InSight Just Detected its First “Marsquake”
The InSight lander recently detected the strongest seismic signal yet, thanks to its Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument.
Scientists are Trying to Figure Out Why InSight’s “Mole” Can’t Dig Any Deeper
Engineers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) are busy working with a replica InSight…
InSight’s Rock-hammer is About Half a Meter Down and has Already Run into Rocks.
NASA's InSight lander is busy deploying its Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) into the Martian soil and has…
Curiosity Crashed, but it’s Working Fine Again. NASA Won’t Have to Send Astronauts to Turn it off and Back on Again.
A few weeks after Curiosity suffered a glitch that put it in safe mode, the rover is once again operating…
InSight has Placed its Heat Probe on the Martian Surface. The Next Step is to Jackhammer Down 5 Meters and Hope it Doesn’t Encounter a Large Rock
NASA's InSight lander has finally placed its heat probe on the surface of Mars. The Heat Flow and Physical Properties…
InSight Just Put a Windshield Over its Seismometer
NASA's InSight lander arrived on Mars on November 26th, 2018. Since then, it's been busying itself studying its landing spot,…
InSight Just Placed its Seismometer onto the Surface of Mars to Listen for Marsquakes
NASA's InSight lander has deployed its first instrument on the surface of Mars. On December 19th, the stationary lander used…
Of Course You’ll Want to See InSight’s First Selfie.
InSight has been on the Martian surface for almost three weeks, prepping itself for all the science it's going to…
InSight Uses its Seismometer to “Hear” the Sound of Wind on Mars
The InSight lander recently used two its instruments to record vibrations caused by Martian wind, effectively capturing what it sounds…