InSight was a NASA lander mission designed to study the deep interior of Mars. Managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with contributions from European agencies, its primary goal was to understand the formation and evolution of rocky planets. The lander carried instruments like the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) to measure marsquakes and a heat probe (HP3) to study the planet's internal heat flow. InSight's mission provided data about the planet's core, mantle, and crust, contributing to our understanding of the early formation of terrestrial planets.
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NASA's InSight mission team is analyzing the problem with the mole and will provide more information after evaluation.
The probe, or mole, on the InSight lander was found emerging from a hole onto the Martian surface in images returned on October 26.
Zurbuchen stated that the InSight mission is functioning very well despite the problem with the mole.
The heat flow instrument and a seismometer are the two major payloads on the InSight mission, with the seismometer working normally.
NASA's InSight Mars lander experienced a setback with its heat flow instrument on October 26.
The solar conjunction period affecting InSight is expected to end on 2019-09-07, and it will take about a week after that to retrieve all data from InSight and other spacecraft at Mars.
Engineers propose using InSight’s robotic arm to press down on the surface near the HP3 to increase friction for the mole.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory will use InSight’s robotic arm to lift the support structure for the HP3 in order to troubleshoot the instrument.
U.S. Special Operations Command analysts will use the 3D data engineering lab to rapidly sift through massive amounts of geospatial data to produce actionable insight.
Engineers are trying to determine why NASA’s InSight Mars lander's Heat and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument is stuck approximately 30 centimeters below the Martian surface.
The MarCO spacecraft were 6U cubesats launched in May 2018 as secondary payloads on the Atlas V that carried the InSight mission to Mars.
The complete seismometer on NASA’s InSight lander was led by the French space agency CNES and collaboratively built with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Sodern built the three seismic sensors onboard NASA’s InSight lander that reached the red planet 2018-11-26.
Lockheed Martin Space is developing the McCandless Lunar Lander based on designs for Martian landers the company produced for NASA, including the InSight lander.
InSight launched on an Atlas V from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 2018-05-05.
The seismometer on InSight was provided by the French space agency CNES and caused InSight to miss its original March 2016 launch window due to problems that required a redesign.
NASA’s InSight spacecraft landed on Mars on 2018-11-26 after a journey of nearly 500 million kilometers.
International contributions to the InSight mission accounted for about $180,000,000 of the mission’s overall cost of nearly $1 billion, including launch and operations.
The Lockheed Martin-built InSight spacecraft touched down on Elysium Planitia near the Martian equator at 2:52:59 p.m. Eastern.
Project leaders at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory decided on 2018-11-25 to carry out a sixth and final trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) during InSight’s cruise phase.