If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be ... one tenth of what it had been at launch, as Mars' red dust had covered InSight's solar panels and greatly reduced its ...

NASA just showed us all how to land on Mars... again. At about 2:54 p.m. ET, mission controllers on Earth got word that the space agency's InSight lander -- designed to study the red planet's ...

The InSight lander has successfully touched down on Mars, beginning a two-year mission to peer deep inside the red planet's interior. Technicians and engineers inspect the heat shield for the ...

NASA's $850 million InSight Lander is the first designed to study the interior structure of Mars. Until now, NASA's landers mainly focused on exploring Mars' surface for signs of potential life.

Case in point, in 2021 Mars' InSight lander met its early demise due to caked dust covering its solar panels, rendering it unable to charge its batteries to stay operational. Worse yet ...

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