InSight

A key component of NASA’s Insight Mars lander may soon be back in full swing, with a creative maneuver to free the vehicle’s heat probe after it became lodged in the soil now appearing to bear some fruit.

NASA is working to unstick the heat probe on the InSight Mars lander with the aid of its robotic arm.

NASA has released a symphony of sounds captured by InSight on Mars including quakes, howling winds, metallic “dinks and donks” and other eerie sounds.

NASA's Insight Mars lander has recorded what is likely the first ever detected "marsquake." Picked up by the unmanned lander's Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, the extremely faint subsurface vibrations were recorded on April 6, 2019.

​​Digging into the surface of another planet for the first time is going to bring some surprises, you’d just hope that those surprises don’t include your digging being brought to a halt. This is the dilemma scientists working on the Mars InSight mission have been forced to contend with.

​​Things have run pretty smoothly for NASA’s Mars Insight lander so far, safely touching down on the Red Planet. But mission control is now taking pause after these drilling operations ground to a halt, with the probe seemingly snagged on some hardened material beneath the surface.​

If you've ever wondered what the weather is on Mars, wonder no more. Today, NASA published an online tool that will allow the public to get daily Martian weather reports based on data gathered by the space agency's unmanned InSight lander.

NASA's InSight lander continues to ramp up for the science phase of its mission, having now dropped its the second instrument pack on the Martian surface. Images confirm that the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package had been placed within a meter of the previously deployed seismometer.

The two MarCO CubeSats that accompanied NASA's InSight mission on its voyage to Mars have gone silent. Mission control has been unable to contact either of the briefcase-sized spacecraft for over a month as they continue to hurtle into deep space beyond the orbit of the Red Planet.

NASA's InSight lander continues to set up house on Mars and has now placed a domed shield over the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument package that its robotic arm placed on the surface on December 19, 2018.

The InSight Mars lander has used its robotic arm to gently deposit its main instrument, a highly sophisticated seismometer, on the surface of the planet. It will collect a great portion of the mission's scientific data and, along with a heat probe, will investigate the internal structure of Mars.

Mission scientists have gained another fresh perspective on InSight's new home on the Red Planet, courtesy of intriguing aerial images snapped by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).​