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Black-and-white satellite photo of the Martian surface before and after a meteor impact
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Meteor Impact Could Inform Martian Mysteries

by Caroline Hasler 16 December 202216 December 2022

The impact sent surface waves rippling over the Martian surface all the way to NASA’s InSight lander, giving scientists a rare view of the planet’s outer layer.

Cross-sectional illustration of Mars showing the location of the InSight lander, the site of a meteorite impact, and different seismic wave paths from the impact that InSight detected
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Powerful Impact Provides Insight into Deep Structure of Mars

by Rachel Fritts 14 November 202214 November 2022

Seismic signals detected by the InSight lander show that the planet’s lower mantle may be less homogenous than previous models have suggested.

An artist’s rendering of InSight on the surface of Mars
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Constraining Martian Crustal Thickness with InSight Seismology

by Morgan Rehnberg 12 July 202212 July 2022

The first seismic observations from Mars significantly reduce uncertainty in estimates of the Red Planet’s crustal structure.

NASA’s InSight lander, covered in dust on Mars
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More Than Marsquakes: InSight Yielded Magnetism, Weather Discoveries

by Ilima Loomis 16 June 202217 June 2022

A secondary suite of instruments on the Mars lander produced a first look at magnetic fields from the planet’s surface.

Detail from Eos Mars poster
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Mars from the InSight Out

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 22 November 202122 June 2022

There’s a seismometer on Mars, and it’s been busy! Download our free illustrated poster.

Image of a canyon in the Cerberus Fossae region on Mars. One side of the canyon is in shadow, whereas the other is brightly illuminated.
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Summer Could Be Earthquake Season on Mars

by Elise Cutts 1 November 202129 June 2022

InSight data hint that shifting carbon dioxide ice loads, illumination changes, or solar tides could drive an uptick in marsquakes during northern summer—a “marsquake season.”

Schematic of the mechanical design of the Heatflow and Physical Properties Package radiometer
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Insights from Calibration of the HP³ Radiometer on InSight

by Kristy Tiampo 27 July 202022 June 2022

A detailed analysis of Heatflow and Physical Properties Package Radiometer on the Mars InSight lander, including changing instrument sensitivity and calibration coefficients.

A crust fracture and craters on Mars
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A Modern Manual for Marsquake Monitoring

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 11 December 201922 June 2022

Thanks to some extraordinary engineering, the InSight mission has led the new field of Martian seismology to the development of a new planetary magnitude scale in less than a year.

InSight’s seismometer deployed on Mars
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First Possible Marsquake Detected

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 26 April 201922 June 2022

First earthquakes, then moonquakes, now marsquakes: a robotic lander comes through with the first detection of seismic activity on Mars.

Mars and WALL-E’s (MarCO-B) solar panel during flyby
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Hello, Goodbye: First Interplanetary CubeSats Zip Past Mars

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 4 December 201817 January 2023

The InSight lander safely arrived on Mars early last week. Two tiny spacecraft made up part of its communications array and transmitted landing data back to Earth.

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