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New York, Oct 28 (IANS) NASA's InSight lander has captured a stunning meteoroid impact on Mars that occurred last year, the largest to date observed on the Red Planet, and boulder-size blocks of water ice can be seen around the rim of an…

Washington, Sep 20 (IANS) NASA's InSight lander has detected impact sounds from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. It marks the first time seismic and acoustic waves from an impact have been detected on Mars. A new…

InSight's seismometer is being prioritized because that is the lander's primary instrument for studying marsquakes. Like Earth, Mars is periodically shaken by quakes, but unlike Earth, these aren't caused by tectonic plates.…

NASA's InSight Lander is a rover that roams the planet of Mars and checks up on the happenings of the planet. InSight takes daily weather measurements (temperature, wind, pressure) on the surface of Mars and provides a report to…

The Biden administration proposed new funding for NASA’s lunar aspirations, including a second moon-lander project that would compete with an already-awarded effort from SpaceX.The White House budget request includes roughly $1.5 billion in…

© Reuters. Dr. Eric Lander, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), speaks following being ceremonially sworn in by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White…

Washington, November 25 NASA’s Mars InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander has developed the first ever map of the underground of the…

Landing a spacecraft on the lunar surface is tricky. As any engineer can tell you, dust doesn't help.Billions of grains of crushed rock, called…

FP TrendingAug 26, 2021 15:41:38 ISTispace unveiled its designs for a third lunar lander that will potentially be launched by 2024. The company has said that its next-generation lunar lander, dubbed Series 2, would be able to survive the…

A federal agency upheld the decision to make Elon Musk’s SpaceX the sole winner of a contract to develop a lander for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s return to the moon, a setback to Jeff Bezos’ space…