Mars ended NASA’s InSight mission on its own terms, not with a dramatic crash or a catastrophic malfunction, but with a slow, suffocating blanket of dust that starved the lander of power. That quiet ...

Like the Phoenix spacecraft, InSight had a parachute and retro rockets to slow its descent through the atmosphere, and three legs suspended from the lander absorbed the shock of touching down on the ...

NASA launched the InSight lander to study the deep interior of Mars. It focused on the mantle, core, and seismic activity called marsquakes. Although the lander stopped working, it provided scientists ...