InSight

NASA’s InSight Lander Sees Stunning Sunrise and Sunset on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 15, 2019
In April 2019, NASA’s InSight lander used its Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) to capture a series of Martian sunrise and sunset images.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Mars InSight lander may have the first recording of a Marsquake 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 24, 2019
Here’s what a rumbling Red Planet sounds like

By David Aragorn
NASA spots Mars InSight lander from space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 15, 2019
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the newest machine on Mars. You can even see the solar panels.

By David Aragorn
2018 was a busy year in space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 5, 2019
We said hello to some spacecraft and good-bye to a few favorites

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Insight Lander on Mars Spotted from Space!0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 14, 2018
NASA’s newly arrived Mars lander has been spotted by one its orbiting cousins.

By David Aragorn
Mars lander takes a selfie 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 14, 2018
After painstakingly swiveling the camera mounted on its robotic arm for a week, NASA’s InSight spacecraft, which landed last month on Mars, has completed its first photographic survey—of the sand-filled crater surrounding it and of itself, NASA announced today.

By David Aragorn
Sounds of Mars wind captured by Nasa’s InSight lander 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2018
Scientists celebrate recording low-frequency rumblings – ‘an unplanned treat’

By David Aragorn
InSight Lander Sending Back First Mars Photos 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 8, 2018
After a long journey, it’s time to get to work.

By David Aragorn
InSight Successfully Lands on Mars, Sends First Images 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 29, 2018
After an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458 million km) journey from Earth, NASA’s InSight lander successfully touched down Monday, November 26, 2018, near Mars’ equator on the western side of a flat, smooth expanse of lava called Elysium Planitia, with a signal affirming a completed landing sequence at approximately 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST, 8 p.m. GMT). The landing signal was relayed via one of NASA’s two small experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats.

By David Aragorn
Touchdown on Mars: InSight probe completes historic landing 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 27, 2018
NASA’s Mars InSight probe has landed at what appears to be a beautifully boring location – a fortunate outcome that should expedite the mission’s primary aim of exploring the planet’s interior with seismic and other sensors, scientists said on Monday.

By David Aragorn