Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2020 - A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published this week reveal a planet alive wit
Cologne, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 - Mars is a seismically active planet - quakes occur several times a day. Although they are not particularly strong, they are easily measurable during the quiet evening hours. This is one of many resu
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 - On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in the Elysium Planitia region. Seventy Martian days later, the mission's seismometer SEIS began recording the planet's vib
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 - New data gleaned from the magnetic sensor aboard NASA's InSight spacecraft is offering an unprecedented close-up of magnetic fields on Mars. In a study published in Nature Geoscience, scientis
College Park MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 - The first reports of seismic activity and ground vibrations on Mars are in. The red planet has a moderate level of seismic activity, intermediate between Earth and the Moon. An international t
Paris (AFP) Feb 24, 2020 - Mars is a constantly tremoring living body, researchers said Monday as they unveiled measurements of seismic activity on the red planet showing similar tremble rates to Earth or the Moon.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2020 - After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA's InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight's robo
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2020 - In the fall of 2019, the Mars 2020 rover team welcomed ten members to serve as Returned Sample Science Participating Scientists. Scheduled to launch in July 2020 as NASA's next step in exploration o
Sendai, Japan (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 - While InSight's seismometer has been patiently waiting for the next big marsquake to illuminate its interior and define its crust-mantle-core structure, two scientists, Takashi Yoshizaki (Tohoku Uni
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2020 - From Feb. 17 to Feb. 29, 2020, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will go on hiatus from its science mission and its relay operations while engineers on Earth conduct long-distance maintenance
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 14, 2020 - The northern and southern hemispheres of Mars differ fundamentally in terms of surface topography, age and morphology. In the north is an extensive lowland region that is relatively flat and much yo
San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2020 - The early solar system was a chaotic place, with evidence indicating that Mars was likely struck by planetesimals, small protoplanets up to 1,200 miles in diameter, early in its history. Southwest R
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 13, 2020 - Briny water may form on the surface of Mars a few days per year, research by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) Senior Scientist Norbert Schorghofer shows. Liquid water is difficult to come by
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2020 - NASA's next Mars rover has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Red Planet this July. Two Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo planes carrying the Mars 2020 rover as well
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 10, 2020 - NASA is sending a new laser-toting robot to Mars. But unlike the lasers of science fiction, this one is used for studying mineralogy and chemistry from up to about 20 feet (7 meters) away. It might
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2020 - NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft has discovered layers and rifts in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon
