Tag Archives: InSight

InSight: Broadcast schedule for landing events

Posted on November 14, 2018 by rburnham

NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet at approximately noon PST (3 p.m. EST) on Nov. 26, and viewers everywhere can watch coverage of the … Continue reading →

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InSight: Landing site bland as ‘vanilla ice cream’

Posted on November 5, 2018 by rburnham

No doubt about it, NASA explores some of the most awe-inspiring locations in our solar system and beyond. Once seen, who can forget the majesty of astronaut Jim Irwin standing before the stark beauty of the Moon’s Hadley Apennine mountain … Continue reading →

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InSight: Five things to know about its landing

Posted on October 31, 2018 by rburnham

Every Mars landing is a knuckle-whitening feat of engineering. But each attempt has its own quirks based on where a spacecraft is going and what kind of science the mission intends to gather.  On Nov. 26, NASA will try to … Continue reading →

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InSight: NASA Launches a new podcast to Mars

Posted on October 29, 2018 by rburnham

NASA has a new mission to Mars, and it’s taking podcast listeners along for the ride. Launching today, the eight-episode series “On a Mission” follows the InSight lander as it travels hundreds of millions of miles and attempts to land … Continue reading →

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HiRISE: Possible rock falls on steep slopes

Posted on October 29, 2018 by rburnham

Possible rock falls on steep slopes in Cerberus Fossae. Our goal here is to take “before” images at HiRISE resolution in order to identify fresh rockfalls that might be able to be associated with seismic events or Marsquakes detected by … Continue reading →

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InSight: NASA landing briefing, October 31

Posted on October 26, 2018 by rburnham

NASA’s upcoming landing of the first-ever mission to study the heart of Mars will be the topic of a media briefing at 1:30 p.m. EDT (10:30 a.m. PDT) Wednesday, Oct. 31 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The briefing will air … Continue reading →

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InSight: Studying Mars while standing still

Posted on October 24, 2018 by rburnham

You don’t need wheels to explore Mars. After touching down in November, NASA’s InSight spacecraft will spread its solar panels, unfold a robotic arm … and stay put. Unlike the space agency’s rovers, InSight is a lander designed to study … Continue reading →

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InSight: Winning the ‘Claw Game’ on Mars

Posted on October 16, 2018 by rburnham

If you’ve ever played the claw machine at an arcade, you know how hard it can be to maneuver the metal “hand” to pick up a prize. Imagine trying to play that game when the claw is on Mars, the … Continue reading →

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MarCO makes space for small explorers

Posted on September 13, 2018 by rburnham

Twenty years ago, CubeSats — a class of boxy satellites small enough to fit in a backpack — were used by universities as a teaching aid. Simpler, smaller and cheaper than traditional satellites, they’ve made space more accessible to private … Continue reading →

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InSight: Taking Mars’ internal temperature

Posted on August 28, 2018 by rburnham

Ambitious climbers, forget Mt. Everest. Dream about Mars. The Red Planet has some of the tallest mountains in the solar system. They include Olympus Mons, a volcano nearly three times the height of Everest. It borders a region called the … Continue reading →

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