August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
...there will be science that is happening before that deployment time period is up,” says Mark Panning, a co-investigator on the InSight mission based at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The mobile service tower at SLC-3 is rolled back to reveal...
26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
... one martian year (about 23 Earth months), NASA’s InSight spacecraft beat the odds to successfully land on the Red...was two briefcase-sized spacecraft whose main purpose was to relay InSight’s progress as it descended to the martian surface; MarCO-A...
19 March 2019
New data from InSight shows a contrasting Mars
... of our nearest planetary neighbour. Already firmly planted on the ground and hidden under a protective heat shield is InSights’ Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument. SEIS’s main role is to listen out for ‘marsquakes;’ pulses...
21 December 2018
InSight deploys its first instrument on Mars
...three-quarters of the science objectives lined up for the mission. "Seismometer deployment is as important as landing InSight on Mars," said InSight Principal Investigator Bruce Banerdt, who is based at JPL. SEIS was carefully placed onto the martian...
04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
...2018, around noon PST (3 p.m EST/7 p.m GMT). Once airborne, InSight's Atlas will reach orbit about 13 minutes after launch, when the rocket...upon the science objectives set aside for InSight. InSight, which stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic...
24 February 2020
First results from InSight reveal a seismically active Mars
... but detections fo far have been lacking. While meteorological measurements do reveal a more dynamic atmosphere than expected, InSight’s instruments also help confirm what is already known about the Red Planet’s atmosphere; it has an average pressure...
