Watch InSight's successful landing on Mars: Difference between revisions

'''''Speculation''''': I've wondered if their seismometer will be able to detect the layer of brines that Curiosity found just a few cms below the surface. Curiosity found that it forms every day overnight and dries out in the daytime as it warms up, and found this layer indirectly through humidity measurements, whenever it drove over sand dunes. Not sure but the Elysia Planitium might be suitable ground for it to form. Could the seismometer detect -this through its recording of the reverberations of the self hammering mole which they said could give them some insights into the structure of the land.? The self hammering mole will also be releasing pulses of heat and recording how they are transmitted with temperature sensors all along its cable as it descends. CuriositySee found[https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/instruments/hp3/ thatHeat itprobe: forms every day overnight and dries out inTaking the daytimetemperature as it warms upof below the sand dunesMars]. Not sure butPerhaps the Elysialiquid Planitiumbrines might beleave suitablea grounddistinctive forheat it to form. Could the mole detect thesesignature?