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  • [ 29 March 2023 ] Supermassive black holes not impressive enough? Try the ultramassive version News
  • [ 28 March 2023 ] James Webb’s infrared vision lets astronomers take an exoplanet’s temperature News
  • [ 27 March 2023 ] NASA gearing up for OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample recovery News
  • [ 23 March 2023 ] A simpler, more mundane explanation for ‘Oumuamua’s strange behaviour News
  • [ 22 March 2023 ] Japanese Hakuto-R moon lander slips into lunar orbit News
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NASA’s InSight mission

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InSight lander detects most powerful marsquake yet

25 September 2021 Astronomy Now

The InSight Mars lander detects three powerful marsquakes in one month, shedding new light on the planet’s interior.

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InSight finds frigid Mars has molten core

27 July 2021 Astronomy Now

An ultra-sensitive seismometer aboard NASA’s InSight Mars lander finds a huge molten core at the heart of the red planet.

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Mars “mole” struggles to hammer its way past obstacles

6 March 2019 Astronomy Now

A German temperature probe carried to Mars aboard NASA’s InSight lander is struggling to hammer its way past sub-surface obstacles.

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InSight Mars lander deploys seismometer shield

5 February 2019 Astronomy Now

A robot arm aboard NASA’s InSight Mars lander has completed deployment of a sensitive French-built seismometer and its critical wind and thermal shield.

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InSight selfie reveals drab, featureless plain – just what the doctor ordered

11 December 2018 Astronomy Now

NASA’s InSight Mars lander has snapped its first selfie on the surface of the red planet, revealing a level, almost featureless plain that’s exactlly the sort of landing site mission scientists wanted.

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NASA thrilled InSight landed on flat, rock-free ‘sandbox’ on Mars

2 December 2018 Astronomy Now

Analysis of photographs showing the area around NASA’s InSight Mars lander shows no signs of any large rocks or depressions that might affect placement of the spacecraft’s science instruments.

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Managers clear InSight for launch after heat shield review

3 May 2018 Stephen Clark

NASA officials have determined that the robotic InSight lander is ready for its mission to Mars after concluding that the probe should not suffer the same flaw that led to a crack in a heat shield undergoing tests for the space agency’s Mars 2020 rover.

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News Headlines

  • Supermassive black holes not impressive enough? Try the ultramassive version
    29 March 2023
  • James Webb’s infrared vision lets astronomers take an exoplanet’s temperature
    28 March 2023
  • NASA gearing up for OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample recovery
    27 March 2023
  • A simpler, more mundane explanation for ‘Oumuamua’s strange behaviour
    23 March 2023
  • Japanese Hakuto-R moon lander slips into lunar orbit
    22 March 2023
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