InSight

NASA’s InSight lander recorded one of the largest craters ever witnessed forming any place in the solar system. Where? On Mars. NASA's InSight lander has recorded one of the largest craters ever witnessed forming any place in the solar system. Where? On Mars. While observing the images and seismic data, NASA has documented many larger craters during the Mars mission, but this one is said to be the largest seen forming. While nearing the end of its life, NASA's InSight lander recorded a magnitude 4 quake on the Red…

A composite image showing a tree ring and flames – UQ researchers used tree ring data to model the global carbon cycle to challenge the common theory about Miyake Events. Credit: The University of QueenslandNew light has been shed on a mysterious, unpredictable, and potentially devastating kind of astrophysical event, thanks to a University of Queensland (UQ) study.A team of researchers, led by Dr. Benjamin Pope from UQ’s School of Mathematics and Physics, applied cutting-edge statistics to data from millennia-old trees,…

The NASA InSight Lander has detected a rare moment of a meteoroid strike on Mars. Know what it revealed about the red planet. While meteoroids, small pieces of asteroids or comets, keep hitting and getting burnt in the upper atmosphere of the Earth, an actual strike to the ground is a rare event. If these meteoroids survive the atmosphere, and hit the Earth, they are called meteorites. These strikes happen on every planet in the solar system. This is why the latest observation by the NASA InSight Lander, which went to…

On December 24, 2021—the day before the Webb Space Telescope would launch—a rock hurtled through the thin Martian atmosphere and slammed into the ground, leaving a crater nearly 500 feet across. This week, NASA revealed images of the impact site taken by a Mars-orbiting satellite.In a press conference Thursday, Lori Glaze,director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, said the rock that caused the crater was probably between 17 and 33 feet (5-10 meters) across. A paper describing the impact and its seismic effects was…

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 impact crater.The Mars lander recorded a magnitude 4 marsquake last December, but scientists learned only later the cause of that quake -- a meteoroid strike estimated to be one of the biggest seen on Mars since NASA began exploring the cosmos.The meteoroid is estimated to have spanned 16 to 39 feet (5 to 12…

Artist’s impression of the meteorite impact of December 24, 2021, in the Amazonis Planitia region on Mars. Credit: © IPGP -CNES – N. Starter<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>NASA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics…

NASA’s InSight lander, a mission devoted to unlocking the secrets of the Martian interior, likely has just a few months left before its dust-covered solar panels stop being able to provide sufficient power. But the faltering lander’s instruments continue their work advancing our understanding of volcanology and seismology on the Red Planet.Three papers published today—two in Science and one in Nature Astronomy—reveal details of Mars’ interior, its seismic waves, and even two major meteorite impacts on the planet last…

NASA's InSight lander may have had its last hurrah. Researchers have learned that a marsquake the lander detected in Mars' Amazonis Planitia region on December 24th, 2021 was actually a meteoroid impact — the first time any mission has witnessed a crater forming on the planet. Scientists found out when they looked at before-and-after pictures from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) revealing a 492-foot gash in the landscape. The meteoroid is believed to have been somewhere between 16 and 39 feet long. It would have…

The study highlighted one gene, SPI1, as a potential key regulator of microglia and AD risk.Scientists shed new light on the genetic and molecular machinery that predispose individuals to Alzheimer’s disease.Human microglia are immune cells that reside in the brain, and Mount Sinai researchers have attained an unprecedented understanding of their genetic and molecular machinery. This understanding may help shed light on how they contribute to the onset and progression of <span class="glossaryLink"…

Auguste Renoir’s Maternity (also known as The Nursing Child – Madame Renoir and her son, Pierre) sees a move away from wet-nursing. Credit: Wikimedia The history of breastfeeding reveals uncomfortable truths about women, work and money. An unlikely place where the history of nursing is clearly visible is in Impressionist paintings.…