Insight leaves an incredible legacy though, having provided the best-ever look at the interior of Mars and being the first time a seismometer has been used on another planet.

The cameras on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have been observing Mars for 16 years. Before 2021, they had not observed any impacts that formed a crater over 130 meters across. In 2021, it ...

NASA's InSight probe landed on Mars in 2018 to help scientists study the planet's interior. But Martian dust has been building up on InSIght's solar arrays, which could end its mission.

InSight's 'final selfie' of April 24, 2022 shows a solar-powered lander caked in Martian dust. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Earth's crust ranges in thickness between an average of 13 to 17 ...

Mars wasn’t easy on InSight. Take the case of the soil snafu. The lander arrived on Mars in late 2018 with an instrument designed to hammer into the surface to measure the interior’s heat.

NASA's InSight lander reached Mars four years ago and has been working to gather data about the red planet's interior. But the mission will soon come to an end.

Since it landed in November 2018, the lander has provided insight on Mars' liquid core and the composition of its other interior layers. It has detected more than 1,300 quakes on the planet ...

This was the biggest result of the mission, Dr. Banerdt said, “to actually map out the deep interior of the planet.” The crust below InSight turned out thinner than expected, about 15 to 25 miles.

Cold, dusty Mars has claimed the life of yet another intrepid robotic explorer. On Dec. 21, NASA announced the end of the InSight mission to explore Mars’ interior.

Traveling for a little over six months, InSight completed 201,223,981 miles at a top speed of 6,200 mph by the time it landed on Mars just before 3 p.m. EST Monday.

InSight's seismometer, called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), has recorded 733 distinct marsquakes. About 35 of those—all between magnitudes 3.0 and 4.0—provided the data for the ...

On December 14, scientists announced that InSight detected a 4.7 magnitude marsquake on May 4 (Sol 1222 on Mars). This quake is the largest ever recorded on the Red Planet.