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Tag Archives: Wind and Thermal Shield
InSight: Wind and thermal shield placed on Sol 66
[From Emily Lakdawalla’s blog at the Planetary Society] Just a brief update to point out that the InSight mission has successfully placed the wind and thermal shield over the seismometer. The seismometer will now be shielded from winds and kept … Continue reading
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Tagged Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, CNES, Elysium Planitia, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, NASA, SEIS, Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, Wind and Thermal Shield, WTS
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InSight: Seismometer now has a cozy shelter
For the past several weeks, NASA’s InSight lander has been making adjustments to the seismometer it set on the Martian surface on Dec. 19. Now it’s reached another milestone by placing a domed shield over the seismometer to help the … Continue reading
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Tagged Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, CNES, Elysium Planitia, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, NASA, SEIS, Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, Wind and Thermal Shield, WTS
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InSight: Pre-launch briefing videocast
InSight, the first planetary mission to take off from the West Coast, is targeted to launch at 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT) on May 5 from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, aboard a … Continue reading
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Tagged Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, CNES, DLR, Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe, HP3, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, MarCO, Mars Cube One, NASA, SEIS, Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, Wind and Thermal Shield, WTS
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InSight: Tour a Mars robot test lab
NASA’s InSight lander looks a bit like an oversized crane game: when it lands on Mars this November, its robotic arm will be used to grasp and move objects on another planet for the first time. And like any crane … Continue reading
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Tagged Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, CNES, 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, Wind and Thermal Shield, WTS
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