NASA InSight Mars Weather Service API

Per-Sol summary data for each of the last seven available Sols (Martian days) of weather at Elysium Planitia, measured by the InSight lander. Reports atmospheric temperature, wind speed and direction, and atmospheric pressure. Note - InSight ended operations in December 2022; data is historical.

NASA InSight Mars Weather Service API is one of 17 APIs that NASA Open APIs publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 machine-runnable capability that can be deployed as REST, MCP, or Agent Skill surfaces via Naftiko.

Tagged areas include Mars, Weather, InSight, Planetary Science, and NASA. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, and 1 Naftiko capability spec.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Documentation

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/

Specifications

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasa-gov/refs/heads/main/openapi/insight-openapi.yml

Other Resources

NaftikoCapability

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nasa-gov/refs/heads/main/capabilities/insight.yaml

OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: NASA InSight Mars Weather Service API
  description: |
    Per-Sol summary data for each of the last seven available Sols (Martian days) of weather at Elysium Planitia
    as measured by the InSight lander. Reports temperature, wind, and pressure. NOTE - InSight ended operations
    in December 2022; data exposed by this endpoint is historical.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: NASA Open APIs
    url: https://api.nasa.gov/
  license:
    name: US Government Work (Public Domain)
servers:
- url: https://api.nasa.gov/insight_weather
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
paths:
  /:
    get:
      summary: Get InSight Mars Weather
      operationId: getInsightWeather
      tags:
      - Weather
      parameters:
      - name: ver
        in: query
        description: API version.
        schema:
          type: string
          default: '1.0'
      - name: feedtype
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          default: json
      - name: api_key
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          default: DEMO_KEY
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Per-Sol weather summary for the most recent seven sols.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
components:
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: api_key