Tag Archives: Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport

InSight: First likely marsquake detected

Posted on April 23, 2019 by rburnham

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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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on April 19, 2019 by rburnham

Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.

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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on April 15, 2019 by rburnham

Daily Elysium charts and data (temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure) here.

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InSight: More testing for the ‘mole’

Posted on April 12, 2019 by rburnham

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 →

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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on April 11, 2019 by rburnham

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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on April 5, 2019 by rburnham

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JPL: Red Planet rovers and InSights

Posted on March 28, 2019 by rburnham

[Ed. note: originally aired on January 10, 2019]

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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on March 27, 2019 by rburnham

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Latest weather at Gale Crater and Elysium Planitia

Posted on March 20, 2019 by rburnham

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ExoMars: Images of InSight lander and more

Posted on March 14, 2019 by rburnham

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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