21 December 2018
InSight deploys its first instrument on Mars
... of the science objectives lined up for the mission. "Seismometer deployment is as important as landing InSight on Mars," said InSight Principal Investigator Bruce Banerdt, who is based at JPL. SEIS was carefully placed onto the martian surface after...
24 April 2019
InSight detects first marsquake
... be, but low-pitched vibrations of this nature is what InSight's seismometer has been especially designed to detect. Mars is a lot...waiting months for a signal like this," said Philippe Lognonné, SEIS team lead at the Institut de Physique du Globe de ...
15 February 2019
Let drilling commence! HP3 gets ready for action
... the Red Planet’s temperature. InSight’s HP3 or Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, successfully positioned itself about a metre away from the landers now-shielded seismometer. Its seismometer, known as SEIS which stands for Seismic Experiment...
04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
...impact upon the science objectives set aside for InSight. InSight, which stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic ...form of seismic waves and by listening in with the landers seismometer (SEIS), the properties of Mars’s crust, mantle and core can ...
19 March 2019
New data from InSight shows a contrasting Mars
.... Already firmly planted on the ground and hidden under a protective heat shield is InSights’ Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument. SEIS’s main role is to listen out for ‘marsquakes;’ pulses or seismic vibrations that rattle...
24 February 2020
First results from InSight reveal a seismically active Mars
... 174 seismic events have been recorded by the lander’s seismometer, meaning they have not been caused by local atmospheric-... do reveal a more dynamic atmosphere than expected, InSight’s instruments also help confirm what is already known about...
