NASA's InSight Records Monster Quake on Mars – NASA's InSight Mars Lander
in December 2018, we’ve been waiting for ‘the big one,’” said Bruce Banerdt, InSight’s principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which leads the mission. “This quake is sure to provide a view into the planet like no other. Scientists will be analyzing this data to learn new things about Mars for years to come.”with its solar panels, which power the mission.
After the lander completed its prime mission at the end of 2020, meeting its original science goals, NASAThis image shows InSight’s domed Wind and Thermal Shield, which covers its seismometer, called Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, or SEIS. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.JPL manages InSight for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA’s Discovery Program, managed by the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
A number of European partners, including CNES and the German Aerospace Center , are supporting the InSight mission. CNES provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure instrument to NASA, with the principal investigator at IPGP . Significant contributions for SEIS came from IPGP; the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland; Imperial College London and Oxford University in the United Kingdom; and JPL.
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