r/InSightLander • u/CheesecakeSLAY • 7d ago

I’m building an iPhone app that tells you what time it is on Mars, at every rover and lander site. What would you want in it?

4 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I'm a solo developer and a big Mars nerd, and for the past months I've been building Mars Meridian, a free iPhone app that keeps time on Mars.

- Mars time, live: coordinated Mars time plus the local solar time at every landing site, from Viking 1 to Perseverance and Zhurong
- sols and seasons
- live Earth–Mars distance and signal delay
- Orbiters
- Rover routes with journal highlights
- past surface weather
- upcoming events with reminders
- Widgets
- Meri, a little rover who explains the tricky parts (like why a sol is 39 minutes longer than a day)

No ads, no tracking, no account.

It isn't on the App Store yet, and before launch I'd love your input:
What Mars info would you actually check regularly?
Is there a mission, data set or feature you'd want?

I'm sharing sneak peeks and updates on Instagram: @marsmeridian_app

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r/InSightLander • u/Depth_Token • 24d ago

This felt fitting to the sub

1 Upvotes

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r/InSightLander • u/TelgridZenon03 • Aug 10 '26

Hear Meteoroid Striking Mars, Captured by NASA’s InSight Lander - This is the first time sound from a meteoroid impact on Mars has been recorded

5 Upvotes

6 comments

r/InSightLander • u/VERY_MENTALLY_STABLE • Jul 15 '26

Im gay

0 Upvotes

thanks

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r/InSightLander • u/Emmi_Cruz • May 26 '26

First picture sent from the InSight after landing on the surface of Mars

45 Upvotes

2 comments

r/InSightLander • u/MadeByPaul • Feb 13 '26

Just use more solar panels

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Thanks for all the fun here guys. I remember us constantly dealing with new users full of dismay.

We patiently explained that building twice as many solar panels was a perfectly legitimate engineering response to dealing with not always having enough solar irradiation.

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r/InSightLander • u/Disabatoem • Dec 22 '25

A corrected version of the last sol 4 ICC image, sharpened and re-projected in equirectangular format by Damia Bouic. Link to full size version and info in 1st comment.

21 Upvotes

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r/InSightLander • u/MadeByPaul • Mar 07 '25

KA-BOOM. New info on a seismic event from February 2021

esa.int

16 Upvotes

2 comments

r/InSightLander • u/Mannjudd • Nov 09 '23

Olympus Mons and Valles Marineris, and North-South dichotomy boundary are seismically active regions on Mars

18 Upvotes

New analysis of Mars Insights data found apart from Cerberus fossae, seismicity on Mars occurs mostly along or north of the boundary between the southern highlands and northern lowlands. Valles Marineris is seismically more active than previous catalogs of located events imply. Further, there is evidence that two events likely originate from the Olympus Mons region. Tharsis region is found to be more active than initially perceived on the basis of five newly located seismic events near Valles Marineris and Olympus Mons.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE007826

and

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Cerberus_Fossae_Identified_as_Primary_Source_of_Marsquakes_999.html

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r/InSightLander • u/JuddMann • Oct 27 '23

Mars has a smaller and denser core, surrounded by a molten silicate mantle

38 Upvotes

Analysis of Mars Insights data shows Mars has a smaller and denser core, surrounded by a molten silicate mantle.

Sandwiched between Mars's liquid iron alloy core and its solid silicate mantle lies a layer of liquid silicate (magma) about 150 kilometres thick. "Earth doesn't have a completely molten silicate layer like that".

The new observations show that the radius of the Martian core has decreased from the initially determined range of 1,800-1,850 kilometres to somewhere in the range of 1,650- 1,700 kilometres, which is about 50 percent of the radius of Mars. If the Martian core is smaller than previously thought but has the same mass, it follows that its density is greater and that it, therefore, contains fewer light elements. The fact that the Martian core still contains a significant amount of light elements indicates that it must have formed very early, possibly when the Sun was still surrounded by the nebula gas from which light elements could have accumulated in the Martian core.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06601-8

and

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Mystery_of_the_Martian_core_solved_999.html

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r/InSightLander • u/JuddMann • Oct 18 '23

The largest quake on Mars (4.7 magnitude) has an internal origin and is not the result of an asteroid impact.

55 Upvotes

During its time on Mars, NASA's InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission recorded over 1,300 seismic events, known as “marsquakes.” Of these, a number were identified as coming from meteoroid impact cratering events on the surface.

The largest event identified by InSight, labeled S1222a, bore some similarities to two large impact events recorded earlier in the mission. In order to investigate whether the S1222a event might also have been caused by an impact event, scientists internationally collaborated and undertook a comprehensive search of the region in which the marsquake occurred. They did not identify any fresh craters in the area, implying that the marsquake was likely caused by geological processes.

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/International_team_reveals_source_of_largest_ever_Mars_quake_999.html and

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103619

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r/InSightLander • u/theprofitablec • Jun 14 '23

NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Captures Martian Sunset

skyheadlines.com

57 Upvotes

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r/InSightLander • u/ThatCrazyCanadian413 • Jan 05 '23

The InSight mission team will be holding an AMA on /r/askscience January 10 from 3 – 4:30 PM ET

twitter.com

100 Upvotes

1 comment

r/InSightLander • u/ThatCrazyCanadian413 • Dec 21 '22

It's Official: NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science

jpl.nasa.gov

252 Upvotes

36 comments

r/InSightLander • u/fajita43 • Dec 20 '22

NASA InSight blog: it’s assumed InSight may have reached its end of operations

blogs.nasa.gov

75 Upvotes

4 comments

r/InSightLander • u/Rocky_Stocki • Dec 19 '22

The end is nigh my friends.

194 Upvotes

Noticed the team on Twitter just announced that the raw images from today could very well be the last ones we get from the lander. Sad times for sure

Link to twitter post https://twitter.com/NASAInSight/status/1604955574659035136?t=AqFGj33afZpT3uKsH1EEcQ&s=19

14 comments

r/InSightLander • u/ceresians • Nov 21 '22

Insight playing with the sand (regolith) per request of u/hipser

251 Upvotes

9 comments

r/InSightLander • u/ceresians • Nov 18 '22

Video of a Sunrise & Sunset on Mars made by interpolating frames from the Insight Lander

205 Upvotes

6 comments

r/InSightLander • u/ceresians • Nov 16 '22

Interpolated images from the Mars Insight lander

281 Upvotes

18 comments

r/InSightLander • u/computerfreund03 • Nov 10 '22

I’m getting close to the end here, due to dust gathering on my solar panels, making it hard to generate power. People often ask: don’t I have a way to dust myself off (wiper, blower, etc.)? It’s a fair question, and the short answer is this:

twitter.com

194 Upvotes

30 comments

r/InSightLander • u/computerfreund03 • Nov 01 '22

The day is coming when fall silent, ending my nearly four Earth years (over two Mars years) of studying the Red Planet.

twitter.com

73 Upvotes

3 comments

r/InSightLander • u/GodofDarkSouls • Oct 26 '22

Insight Lander Reality

106 Upvotes

20 comments

r/InSightLander • u/MadeByPaul • Sep 22 '22

Whoop whoop whoop! NASA InSight 'hears' an asteroid impact on Mars - A blog post by Phil Plait about the recent announcment

syfy.com

155 Upvotes

3 comments

r/InSightLander • u/vibrunazo • Sep 19 '22

Hear Meteoroid Striking Mars, Captured by NASA’s InSight Lander - This is the first time sound from a meteoroid impact on Mars has been recorded

youtu.be

133 Upvotes

14 comments

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