Incredibly powerful marsquakes that violently shake the red planet don't always begin under the surface, research shows.

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.

A massive meteor strike on Mars sent shockwaves across the planet, revealing that some of its tremors weren’t tectonic but ...

3 The Role of NASA’s InSight Lander The discovery ... to study the interior of Mars. InSight detected over 1,300 marsquakes, allowing scientists to map the planet’s crust, mantle, and core.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s InSight lander touched down on Mars a few weeks ago and the team of engineers ...

Aug. 12, 2024 — Quakes and meteor impacts on Mars generate seismic waves that can help map the interior. A new study analyzed seismic waves detected by the Insight lander and concludes that 11 ...

NASA’s InSight lander has performed a perfect and critical entry and descent through the Martian atmosphere to gently touchdown on Mars’ Elysium Planitia. The landing came after a flawless ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal ... have finally solved a 50-year-old mystery: why one half of Mars is so drastically different from the other.

On Mars, we only have data from a single instrument on the Insight lander. To find the location of a marsquake, we have to rely on measuring the difference in arrival time between different kinds ...

Using artificial intelligence, scientists have discovered a crater from a meteoroid that they say shook material as deep as ...