Mars InSight

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.
Martian eclipses can be detected on a lander's… seismograph?
Phil Plait
Oct 9, 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Beginnings
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.
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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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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
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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
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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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