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InSight: ‘Rolling Stones Rock’ on Mars
For decades, the music of The Rolling Stones has had a global reach here on Earth. Now, the band’s influence extends all the way to Mars. The team behind NASA’s InSight lander has named a Martian rock after the band: … Continue reading
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Tagged Elysium Planitia, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, NASA, Rolling Stones rock
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InSight update by Emily Lakdawalla, The Planetary Society
A couple more tiny quakes and heat probe progress: It’s been 3 months since my last check-in with the InSight mission. In that time, they’ve detected a few more very small Marsquakes, including the largest yet, coming in at a … Continue reading
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Tagged Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, CNES, DLR, Elysium Planitia, German Aerospace Center Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe, HP3, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, NASA, SEIS, Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure
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InSight: Uncovering ‘the Mole’
Behold the “mole”: The heat-sensing spike that NASA’s InSight lander deployed on the Martian surface is now visible. Last week, the spacecraft’s robotic arm successfully removed the support structure of the mole, which has been unable to dig, and placed … Continue reading
InSight: Getting the Mole moving again
Scientists and engineers have a new plan for getting NASA InSight’s heat probe, also known as the “mole,” digging again on Mars. Part of an instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3), the mole is a self-hammering … Continue reading
InSight’s dusty selfie
This is NASA InSight’s second full selfie on Mars. Since taking its first selfie, the lander has removed its heat probe and seismometer from its deck, placing them on the Martian surface; a thin coating of dust now covers the … Continue reading
InSight: Sunrise and sunset on Mars
NASA’s InSight lander captured a series of sunrise and sunset images. A camera on the spacecraft’s robotic arm snapped the photos on April 24 and 25, the 145th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. In local Mars time, the … Continue reading
InSight: First likely marsquake detected
NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely “marsquake.” The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander’s Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, was recorded on April 6, the lander’s 128th Martian … Continue reading
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Tagged Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, CNES, DLR, Elysium Planitia, German Aerospace Center, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, marsquakes, NASA, SEIS, Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, seismology
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InSight: More testing for the ‘mole’
Updated at 5 p.m. PDT (8 p.m. EDT) on April 11: InSight’s Heat and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument completed a new round of diagnostic hammering into the Martian surface on March 26, 2019, while the spacecraft’s seismometer listened in. … Continue reading
JPL: Red Planet rovers and InSights
[Ed. note: originally aired on January 10, 2019]
ExoMars: Images of InSight lander and more
Curious surface features, water-formed minerals, 3D stereo views, and even a sighting of the InSight lander showcase the impressive range of imaging capabilities of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, launched three years ago … Continue reading
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Tagged CaSSIS, chlorides, Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, Elysium Planitia, ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, NASA, Roscosmos, salts, TGO, Trace Gas Orbiter
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