Its landing site is near Mars’ equator on a flat, smooth plain called Elysium Planitia. The craft deposited a seismometer on the surface to study marsquakes recoding over 1,300 including one ...

NASA has one shot to land it in the perfect spot, here! Elysium Planitia, sometimes referred to as the biggest parking lot on Mars. It's one of the plainest spots NASA could find and the perfect ...

NASA’s InSight lander has performed a perfect and critical entry and descent through the Martian atmosphere to gently touchdown on Mars’ Elysium Planitia. The landing came after a flawless ...

Unlike so many times before, Mars had failed to claim InSight as a victim, and with the lander safely on station on Elysium Planitia, not far north of the Martian equator, the science began in ...

Artist's impression of an active mantle plume – a large blob of warm and buoyant rock – rising from deep inside Mars and pushing up Elysium Planitia, a plain within the planet's northern lowlands.

It is NASA’s first landing on Mars since the space agency’s Curiosity rover in 2012. The planned landing site for NASA's InSight lander is in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars.

The lander successfully touched down on Mars a couple of years back and ... Additionally, InSight’s team chose a landing site in Elysium Planitia, a windswept plain on the Red Planet’s equator ...

Meanwhile robotic probes are still exploring Mars. Last month the InSight lander, which will sample the planet's interior, successfully touched down at Elysium Planitia. In a statement ...

Cerberus Fossae in context of its surrounds in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars near the equator. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Search?SearchText=mars+AND ...