InSight

It’s the End of the Road for NASA’s InSight Lander

The InSight Lander, also known as the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a spacecraft developed by NASA to study the interior of Mars. It was launched on May 5, 2018, and landed on Mars on…

December 21, 2022 ·by Cristian Antonescu· 0

Peculiar Rumblings Coming From Mars’ Interior Point to a Mysterious Form of Energy

Even today, at more than four hundred years since Galileo Galilei first saw it by telescope, planet Mars continues to amaze the astronomers. The InSight lander (The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) was launched by NASA…

April 4, 2021 ·by Cristian Antonescu· 0

Quakes Are Jolting Mars, Leaving Astronomers Puzzled

Many phenomenons that we are all familiar with on Earth can also be found on other planets, and the same goes for seismic activities. The Mars InSight lander of NASA recently detected two significant quakes occurring on the Red Planet,…

April 3, 2021 ·by Cristian Antonescu· 0

Mars InSight Lander’s ‘Mole’ Got Stuck In Mars’ soil – NASA Attempted To Unblock It

NASA engineers are attempting to repair a tool on the Mars InSight probe that was expected to dig five meters (16 feet) into the Martian surface but has ended up plugging at 30 centimeters (one foot). The instrument is called…

July 3, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Marsquake: InSight’s SEIS Probe Detected Seismic Tremor On Mars

The InSight lander has been hard at work since it arrived on the surface of the planet in November 2018. The spacecraft detected a phenomenon which appears to be a marsquake. A dedicated seismometer (known as SEIS) was activated in…

April 24, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA’s InSight Lander Is Already Facing Its First Problems on Mars

NASA has recently launched the InSight lander which managed to land on Mars successfully. The lander was sent with the aim to learn more about the features of the Red Planet, but it seems that an unfortunate event will hamper…

March 21, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA’s InSight Already Encountered Some Issues While Digging On Mars

Researchers have been focusing on Mars for quite some time. A few years ago we discovered that there was liquid water on Mars, while ice water still exists there. That made the Red Planet a priority for scientists. Now a…

March 5, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA’s InSight Mission Will Land On Mars Today

NASA’s InSight is scheduled to land today to become the first space mission that will study the interior of Mars to find out if it is an entirely dead planet or still harbors some geological activity in its bowels. The…

November 26, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

NASA InSight Mission Works With Royal Observatory Of Belgium To Depict Mars’ Composition And Its Evolution Stage

The new NASA InSight mission will measure the temperature and internal movements of Mars to determine what its core looks like, a task in which the Royal Observatory of Belgium is responsible of listening to the “heartbeat” of the planet’s…

May 13, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

InSight: Everything you Need to Know about the Spacecraft that’s Going to Mars

A robotic geologist outfitted with a hammer and a quake monitor soared toward Mars on Saturday, intending to arrive on the red planet and investigate its baffling internal parts. In a turn, NASA propelled the Mars InSight lander from California…

May 5, 2018 ·by Asheley Rice· 0

InSight, The Next NASA’s Mission, Will Be Launched On May 5th And Will Have The Goal To Study The Depths Of The Red Planet

NASA’s upcoming Mars exploration mission, InSight, is set to be deployed on Saturday, May 5th, and it marks a groundbreaking mission, namely, the examination of the Mars underground, for the first time ever. The launch itself will also register a…

April 30, 2018 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

NASA Has Two Major Launches Scheduled Within 1 Month From Now – TESS And InSight

NASA will launch two major space missions in the coming days, TESS, for the discovery of exoplanets, and InSight, for the study of the interior of Mars. The first takeoff will be that of the TESS mission, scheduled for April…

April 6, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA Finalizes The Last Details Of The InSight Mission To Mars Which Is Set To Launch In 35 Days

NASA, the US space agency, finalizes the last details of the InSight mission to Mars which has the goal to explore the interior of the Red Planet. NASA InSight mission to Mars is set to launch in a little more…

March 30, 2018 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0