NASA retires InSight Mars lander
NASA's InSight Mars lander has ended its mission after more than four years studying the red planet. NASA decided to ...
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NASA retires InSight Mars Lander
The mission has concluded that the solar-powered lander has run out of energy after more than four years on the ...
Perseverance deposits first sample on Mars surface
A titanium tube containing a rock sample is resting on the Red Planet's surface after being placed there on Dec. ...
NASA retires InSight lander after four years on Mars
NASA said farewell on Wednesday to the InSight lander that spent four years probing the interior of Mars. The US ...
Seismic waves revealed possible past meteoroid impact
The largest earthquake ever detected on Mars has revealed layers in its crust that could indicate past collision with a ...
Mars' thin and turbulent atmosphere leads to curiously sized dunes
Among the mountainous dunes and small, undulating ripples of Mars' desert-like surface are sand structures, intermediate in size, that are ...
Experiencing a Dust Devil
Recently a combination of instruments on the Perseverance rover has experienced a dust devil in a new way. The SuperCam ...
Martian dust devil analogues in the Mojave Desert #ASA183
In the Mojave Desert, the sun beats down on the ground and makes pockets of low pressure. Cool air rushes ...
NASA's Perseverance rover gets the dirt on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 ...
Cosmic ray counts hidden in spacecraft data highlight influence of solar cycle at Mars and Venus
Measurements by ESA's long-serving twin missions, Mars Express and Venus Express, have captured the dance between the intensity of high-energy ...