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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One day on Mars is about 37 minutes longer than an Earth day – but it seems both planets are working to fix the gap. Data from NASA’s InSight lander have revealed Martian days are getting ever so ...

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 ...

There’s a mystery on Mars. If you think time is whizzing by on planet Earth, try spending some time on the Red Planet. Mars is spinning faster and gradually shortening each day slightly, scientists ...

(CNN) — 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, ...

NOTWITHSTANDING his comparatively small diameter and slow axial motion, the planet Mars affords special facilities for the exact determination of the rotation period. Indeed no other planet appears to ...

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