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* [https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/mars-cube-one-cubesat-launch-with-mars-insight/ Mars-bound CubeSats Launch With NASA’s InSight] lots of details about the cube sats - size, statistics, phtograph of a deployed cube sat on a bench etc.
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46332684 InSight Diary: The silence of space] - exceedingly sensitive seismometers, so senstivie they couldn't find anywhere on Earth quiet enough to test them, when the tested them deep in a mine in the Black forest in Germany the strongest signal was from the sea, hundreds of miles away - which would be far stronger than any feeble Mars quakes. They could only really test them once they were in flight on the way to Mars.
* [https://www.drewexmachina.com/2018/11/21/viking-the-first-seismometers-on-mars/ The Viking Seismometers] - how both Viking missions carried seismometers but they were only able to measure really major quakes. Viking 1 was not able to uncage its seismometer. The Viking 2 one did uncage but only spotted wind data apart from one signal that may have been a Mars quake. Showed that with 95% confidence, Mars is less active than Earth.
NASA TV are doing an extensive program about the Insight lander today (25th November), so if you want to watch a video and hear the experts talk about it, just go to the live feed, it seems to be an all day event so there are hours of streaming video about it.
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