“If Elysium Planitia were a salad, it would consist of romaine lettuce and kale — no dressing,” said InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...

Mars has hosted a surprising number of robotic visitors, yet the question of where humans should touch down remains wide open ...

NASA InSight lander snapped this selfie when its solar panels were still clean from dust. NASA’s InSight lander was a very different mission from the space agency’s famous wheeled Mars rovers. It ...

Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet ...

In 2018, NASA landed the first seismograph on the red planet. The InSight lander (short for Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) was retired in 2022, but while it was active, measured ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona NASA's InSight ...

This illustration shows NASA's InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. NASA/JPL-Caltech That wasn’t quite the end of the story for InSight, though, as it is still ...

Cheers erupted Monday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, which operates the spacecraft, when InSight sent back acknowledgment of its safe arrival on Mars. Cheers erupted Monday ...

inSight should touch down on Mars on Monday, and NASA has detailed how it'll monitor the landing from 91 million miles away on Earth. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a ...