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NASA expects Mars lander to run out of power, ending InSight's historic mission
InSight detected more than 1,300 quakes on Mars, revealing the planet's inner layers for the first …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Wavering NASA lander detects biggest Mars quake yet, even as dust drains its energy
NASA's InSight lander is fighting a layer of Mars dust that's covering its solar panels and causing…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's InSight lander has finally detected 3 big Mars quakes, including one that lasted nearly 90 minutes
On InSight's 1,000th day on Mars, the robot's seismometer detected the big Mars quake that NASA sci…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's InSight lander finds biggest Marsquakes on Red Planet
On September 18, NASA's InSight lander celebrated its 1,000th Martian day, or sol, by measuring …
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NASA's InSight lander has detected more than 500 Mars quakes, but the big ones are mysteriously missing
Mars seems to have an Earth-like interior that's wrapped in a dry, moon-like crust. But scientists …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists are recreating the first Marsquake on Earth to find out what it would feel like
Mars might be 225 million kilometers away but scientists have long tried to recreate the environmen…
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Another point for life on Mars: Signs of liquid water discovered under the planet's surface
NASA's InSight lander measured Marsquakes, and now its data is hinting there's a reservoir of liqui…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA detects a quake on Mars for the very first time — using sound
The seismic signal was recorded on April 6 — Insight’s 128th day on Mars — and it’s the first tr…
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NASA's Mars lander is just days from reaching the red planet - here's how to watch the InSight landing live
InSight's design, including its heat shield and parachute, are very similar to that of NASA's Phoen…
Peter Kotecki
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NASA's InSight Mars lander just gave scientists an unprecedented look at the guts of the red planet. Here's how they compare to Earth's.
By analyzing a dozen quakes, NASA's InSight lander has helped scientists estimate the size and make…
Aylin Woodward
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NASA is sending a new solar-powered lander to Mars to check out what's been happening for the past 4.5 billion years
The NASA inspection kit is named InSight, and it's a hefty, 794-pound Martian lander. InSight (aka …
Hilary Brueck
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NASA is launching a quake-hunting lander to Mars tomorrow - here's how to watch the InSight blast off live
The launch window on Saturday morning closes around 6 a.m., and it's possible that weather conditio…
Hilary Brueck
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NASA's InSight robot is about to land on Mars. Here's how it might survive '7 minutes of terror' and make incredible discoveries about the red planet - and Earth, too.
The ultimate goal is to figure out how Mars formed and what happened to the planet since then. Scie…