NASA's InSight lander has allowed planetary scientists to map the interior of another planet for the first time.
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NASA Reveals First-Ever Look at Mars' Interior
In a historic first, NASA scientists are sharing images of what the core of the red planet is like. The information was gleaned from the space agency's InSight lander which has been tracking a series of marsquakes since 2019. It's believed to be a breakthrough in planetary geoscience, answering a question scientists have wondered about for years. The revelation came on the same day as the Perseverance rover was to begin collecting samples from Mars to send back to Earth.
Seismic action on Mars is revealing new details about the inner structure of the Red Planet. Why it matters: Mars' interior holds the key to …
InSight and Perseverance have sent back unprecedented data on everything from marsquakes to the Red Planet’s inner layers. While humans have been …
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is preparing to collect its first-ever sample. The agency's Southern California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said that the rover was searching for a scientifically interesting rock target in Jezero Crater's "Cratered Floor Fractured Rough." The "Cratered Floor …
Lockheed Martin has been selected by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California to design and build the aeroshell and heat shield …
No methane and no phosphines, Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter sees no traces of life in Martian atmosphere. A joint European-Russian spacecraft orbiting …
NASA's Perseverance is going in for a close look at the rocks.
