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InSight's seismometer may even be able to detect liquid water or magma plumes from active volcanoes below the surface. See [https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/instruments/seis/ Measuring the Pulse of Mars (NASA)] |
InSight's seismometer may even be able to detect liquid water or magma plumes from active volcanoes below the surface. See [https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/instruments/seis/ Measuring the Pulse of Mars (NASA)] |
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'''''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 |
'''''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. See [https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/spacecraft/instruments/hp3/ Heat probe: Taking the temperature of Mars]. Perhaps the liquid brines might leave a distinctive heat signature? |
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* [http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/11/nasas-insight-mission-picks-perfectly-dull-landing-site NASA's InSight mission picks perfectly dull landing site] - unlike most landers, the aim is to be dull :). They aren't looking for interesting and varied geology or places where there could be past or present day life, indeed, the more typical and boring it is, the better for their mission objective to find out about Mars's interior. |
* [http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/11/nasas-insight-mission-picks-perfectly-dull-landing-site NASA's InSight mission picks perfectly dull landing site] - unlike most landers, the aim is to be dull :). They aren't looking for interesting and varied geology or places where there could be past or present day life, indeed, the more typical and boring it is, the better for their mission objective to find out about Mars's interior. |
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[[Image:Insight Lander.jpeg|thumb|center|500px|"This artist’s concept shows InSight landed safely on the Elysium Planitia region of the Red Planet." NASA/JPL-Caltech]] |
[[Image:Insight Lander.jpeg|thumb|center|500px|"This artist’s concept shows InSight landed safely on the Elysium Planitia region of the Red Planet." NASA/JPL-Caltech]] |
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