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Mars is rotating more quickly than it used to, according to data that NASA’s InSight lander collected on the red planet. The now-retired InSight was armed with a suite of instruments, including ...

Data from Nasa’s InSight Mars lander suggests the Red Planet’s rotation is strangely accelerating every year, leading to a fractional shortening of the length of the Martian day. The research, ...

Mars' rotation rate is steadily accelerating resulting in its days getting shorter—and scientists aren't exactly sure why. A group of researchers led by Sébastien Le Maistre of the Royal Observatory ...

Thanks to its InSight lander, NASA has been able to learn a lot about the mysterious planet of Mars over the past five years. But the agency’s latest findings seem to raise more questions than they ...

Add this to Mars’ long list of mysteries. NASA’s now defunct InSight Mars Lander has produced data that indicates that the red planet’s rotation rate, the rate at which it spins on its axis, is ...

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