NASA's Mars InSight flexes its arm
New images from NASA's Mars InSight lander show its robotic arm is ready to do some lifting.
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Watch NASA engineers put a Mars lander's legs to the test
Sturdy legs are needed to absorb the impact of the heaviest spacecraft to ever touch down on the Red Planet.
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Aug 10, 2023
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NASA InSight's 'Mole' is out of sight
NASA's InSight lander continues working to get its "mole"—a 16-inch-long (40-centimeter-long) pile driver and heat probe—deep below the surface of Mars. A camera on InSight's arm recently took images of the now partially ...
Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2020
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NASA's push to save the Mars InSight lander's heat probe
NASA's InSight lander, which is on a mission to explore the deep interior of Mars, positioned its robotic arm this past weekend to assist the spacecraft's self-hammering heat probe. Known as "the mole," the probe has been ...
Space Exploration
Oct 3, 2019
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China's lunar lander snaps first landing site panorama
China's inaugural Chang'e-3 lunar lander has snapped the missions first panoramic view of the touchdown spot at Mare Imbrium.
Space Exploration
Dec 23, 2013
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NASA salvages Mars mission that should have launched by now (Update)
NASA's next Mars mission is still alive.
Space Exploration
Mar 9, 2016
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Slow progress: NASA's still trying to get inSight's Mole working again
The InSight lander has been on Mars for 213 Sols on its mission to understand the interior of the red planet. It's armed with a seismometer, a temperature and wind sensor, and other instruments. But it's primary instrument, ...
Space Exploration
Jul 5, 2019
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First private spacecraft shoots for the moon
"Moon of Israel" is an epic 1924 film from the golden era of silent movies, and helped launch the directing career of Michael Curtiz, of "Casablanca" fame. Sequels seldom live up to the original. But if Israel's plans to ...
Space Exploration
Jan 31, 2019
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NASA's InSight lander: The lonely fate of a robot on Mars
Covered in the red dust that sealed its fate, the NASA InSight lander is slowly shutting down, more than 250 million kilometers from home.
Space Exploration
May 17, 2022
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InSight places first instrument on Mars
NASA's InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone. New images from the lander show the seismometer on the ground, its copper-colored covering faintly illuminated ...
Space Exploration
Dec 20, 2018
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