Tag Archives: InSight

InSight: Sunrise and sunset on Mars

Posted on May 1, 2019 by rburnham

NASA’s InSight lander captured a series of sunrise and sunset images. A camera on the spacecraft’s robotic arm snapped the photos on April 24 and 25, the 145th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In local Mars time, the … Continue reading →

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InSight: First likely marsquake detected

Posted on April 23, 2019 by rburnham

NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely “marsquake.” The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander’s Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, was recorded on April 6, the lander’s 128th Martian … Continue reading →

Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on April 19, 2019 by rburnham

Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.

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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on April 15, 2019 by rburnham

Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.

InSight: More testing for the ‘mole’

Posted on April 12, 2019 by rburnham

Updated at 5 p.m. PDT (8 p.m. EDT) on April 11: InSight’s Heat and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument completed a new round of diagnostic hammering into the Martian surface on March 26, 2019, while the spacecraft’s seismometer listened in. … Continue reading →