04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
... impact upon the science objectives set aside for InSight. InSight, which stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will be NASA’s first mission to peer deep within the interior of Mars with a suite...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... probe developed and built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and deployed on Mars by NASA’s InSight lander has ended its portion of the mission. Since 28 February, 2019, the probe, called the “mole,” has been attempting to burrow...
21 December 2018
InSight deploys its first instrument on Mars
...at its new home on the Red Planet, NASA’s InSight lander swiftly moves on with the task at ...objectives lined up for the mission. "Seismometer deployment is as important as landing InSight on Mars," said InSight Principal Investigator Bruce Banerdt, ...
26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
... NASA’s InSight spacecraft lets an ecstatic mission crew on Earth know that its journey to the Red Planet was a success! Now firmly planted at Elysium Planitia on Mars for at least one martian year (about 23 Earth months), NASA’s InSight spacecraft...
15 February 2019
Let drilling commence! HP3 gets ready for action
...Aerospace Center (DLR), which provided the heat probe for the InSight mission. "Within a few days, we'll finally break ground using... have to wait and see what we'll encounter underground." NASA's InSight lander set its heat probe, called the Heat and ...
24 April 2019
InSight detects first marsquake
... the profile of moonquakes detected on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions," said Lori Glaze, Planetary Science Division director at NASA Headquarters. Provided for InSight by the French space agency, Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES...