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 ...

Mars is spinning faster and faster, shortening the length of its days. The Red Planet's rotation is increasing by around 4 milliarcseconds per year. A milliarcsecond is a unit of angle, with one ...

The length of Mars' day is shortening by three-quarters of a millisecond each year as the planet’s rotation spins up, according to new results from NASA's InSight lander. To get these incredibly ...

The Red Planet's spin is speeding up a hair fast enough to shorten the length of a Martian day by a fraction of a millisecond per year. "It’s really cool to be able to get this latest measurement — ...

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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