InSight Just Placed its Seismometer onto the Surface of Mars to Listen for Marsquakes

By Evan Gough December 21, 2018
InSight Just Placed its Seismometer onto the Surface of Mars to Listen for Marsquakes

"It's the flat parking lot the landing team promised us." - Marleen Sundgaard, JPL.

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"Having the seismometer on the ground is like holding a phone up to your ear," - Philippe Lognonné, principal investigator of SEIS from Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) and Paris Diderot University.

Sources:

  • NASA Press Release: NASA's InSight Places First Instrument on Mars

  • NASA Press Release: InSight Engineers Have Made a Martian Rock Garden

  • NASA Press Release: Mars Virtual Reality Software Wins NASA Award

  • NASA: Mars InSight Mission

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    Evan Gough

    Evan Gough is a science-loving guy with no formal education who loves Earth, forests, hiking, and heavy music. He's guided by Carl Sagan's quote: "Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."