Mars InSight

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Hey Mars, what's shakin'?

Phil Plait

Apr 2, 2021

The Mars lander InSight will sit on the surface and measure marsquakes, heat transport, and the planet’s wobble, all to help us understand the internal structure of the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Martian eclipses can be detected on a lander's… seismograph?

Phil Plait

Oct 9, 2020

The rover Curiosity took this series of images of the Martian moon Phobos transiting the Sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Mars sounds weird

Phil Plait

Oct 3, 2019

The Mars lander InSight will sit on the surface and measure marsquakes, heat transport, and the planet’s wobble, all to help us understand the internal structure of the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Mars: A world both familiar and alien

Phil Plait

May 31, 2019

Details of an image from ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter showing dust devil tracks. Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Mars InSight sees a sunrise and sunset on the Red Planet

Phil Plait

May 2, 2019

Sunrise (left) and sunset (right) on Mars from the viewpoint of Mars InSight, taken on April 24/25, 2019. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Your daily Mars forecast: Fatally cold, with some light winds

Phil Plait

Feb 20, 2019

Your weather update, straight from Mars, courtesy NASA’s Mars InSight lander. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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NASA/JPL's Emily Manor-Chapman on Mars InSight and girls in STEM

Jenna Busch

Jan 19, 2019

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The weather report from Mars, beamed back from InSight

Elizabeth Rayne

Dec 18, 2018

NASA InSight lander

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Mars InSight: Pix from the ground and from space

Phil Plait

Dec 17, 2018

A “selfie” of the Mars InSight lander, using 11 images taken by a camera mounted on a mobile robotic arm. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Science Behind the Fiction: NASA edges closer to manned Mars missions

Cassidy Ward

Dec 5, 2018

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Phil Plait

Nov 28, 2018

Distant galaxies pepper this deep infrared image of the sky, the first taken by Hubble after being reactivated after several weeks of being in safe mode due to a busted gyro. This image has been enlarged and slightly contrast-enhanced from original.

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Mars InSight lands on the Red Planet today! Here's how it'll happen.

Phil Plait

Nov 26, 2018

Minutes before reaching the surface, the Mars InSight lander must pass through the Martian atmosphere at high speed, ramming the air and heating up like a meteor. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Pale Red Dot… for now

Phil Plait

Oct 23, 2018

Mars (circled) as seen by MarCO-B, a very tiny spacecraft on its way to the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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A tiny cube sees the Earth and Moon on its way to Mars

Phil Plait

May 16, 2018

Artwork depicting the pair of Mars Cube One satellites on their way to Mars. Credit: NASA

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

NASA hopes to launch its next big Mars lander, InSight, tomorrow!

Phil Plait

May 4, 2018

The Mars lander InSight will sit on the surface and measure marsquakes, heat transport, and the planet’s wobble, all to help us understand the internal structure of the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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