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Ice Exposing Impacts on a Mars Globe

These Mars global maps show the likely distribution of water ice buried within the upper 3 feet (1 meter) of…

InSight Detects Quakes That Entered Martian Core (Artist’s Concept)

This artist’s concept shows a cutaway of Mars, along with the paths of seismic waves from two separate quakes in…

One of InSight’s Last Images

This is one of the last images ever taken by NASA’s InSight Mars lander. Captured on Dec. 11, 2022, the…

InSight’s Rocket Prepares to Launch

The rocket that launched NASA’s InSight lander to Mars in 2018 is seen at Vandenberg Air Force Base, now called…

Context Camera Views an Impact Crater in Amazonis Planitia

This meteoroid impact crater on Mars was discovered using the black-and-white Context Camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Context…

SHIELD Prototype Attached to Drop Tower

This prototype base for SHIELD – a collapsible Mars lander that would enable a spacecraft to intentionally crash land on…

Mars Dust Storm in Relation to InSight, Curiosity and Perseverance

The beige clouds seen in this global map of Mars are a continent-size dust storm captured on Sept. 29, 2022,…

InSight-Detected Impact in August 2021

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a meteoroid impact that was first detected by the agency’s InSight lander…

Mars Crater Collage

This collage shows three other meteoroid impacts that were detected by the seismometer on NASA’s InSight lander and captured by…

InSight-Detected Impact in February 2021

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a meteoroid impact that was first detected by the agency’s InSight lander…

InSight-Detected Impact in May 2020

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a meteoroid impact that was later associated with a seismic event detected…

InSight Detects an Impact for the First Time

These craters were formed by a Sept. 5, 2021, meteoroid impact on Mars, the first to be detected by NASA’s…

NASA’s InSight Mars lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

InSight’s Final Selfie

NASA’s InSight lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022, the 1,211th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.…

InSight’s Power Generation: After Landing and Spring 2022

InSight’s solar panels produced roughly 5,000 watt-hours each Martian day, or sol, after the spacecraft touched down in November 2018.…

InSight’s Mars Birthday Cake

NASA’s InSight lander team enjoyed this Mars-shaped cake on the first anniversary of the spacecraft’s Nov. 26, 2018, landing. The…