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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #140 on: 02/23/2019 07:44 pm »
I would rely on wind to clean the panels, but if there was no choice but to use the arm or lose the mission, a more effective approach than scraping would probably be to use the arm to bump the panels a few times, hoping to dislodge dust and let it be carried away by the wind.  Do it at the windiest time of day - we are getting that information - and hope for the best.  But wind will do the trick without any help, I am sure.

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #141 on: 02/28/2019 04:03 am »
I would rely on wind to clean the panels, but if there was no choice but to use the arm or lose the mission, a more effective approach than scraping would probably be to use the arm to bump the panels a few times, hoping to dislodge dust and let it be carried away by the wind.  Do it at the windiest time of day - we are getting that information - and hope for the best.  But wind will do the trick without any help, I am sure.
One of my university professors back in the day said that they really wanted to equip solar powered rovers/landers with air compressors or fans to blow the dust off but that would be a mass hit which NASA would rather spend on instruments.

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #142 on: 03/02/2019 05:31 am »
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Mars could've given us a break, but it didn't. The HP3 mole started hammering itself today, and almost immediately (after just 5 minutes) appears to have encountered a rock. After four hours of hammering, it may have pushed the rock aside, but doesn't appear to have buried itself completely beneath the soil yet, because it's still measuring temperatures consistent with the Martian air temperature. No matter; they'll try again Saturday. Patience is the theme of the InSight mission.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2019/insight-update-sol-92-mole-rock.html

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #143 on: 03/06/2019 05:21 am »
Mars InSight Lander's 'Mole' Pauses Digging
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"The team has decided to pause the hammering for now to allow the situation to be analyzed more closely and jointly come up with strategies for overcoming the obstacle," HP3 Principal Investigator Tilman Spohn of DLR wrote in a blog post. He added that the team wants to hold off from further hammering for about two weeks.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/mars-insight-landers-mole-pauses-digging

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #144 on: 03/06/2019 07:06 pm »

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cdate_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=insight

If you go there and click back through the images it looks like they are taking individual images of the horizon now, moving the arm a bit each time. So my guess is that this is part of the big panoramic image they want to take.

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #145 on: 03/06/2019 08:30 pm »
Just the horizon bit of the panorama.  There is approximately 1 full image missing from the full coverage of the horizon.  Below, a stretched version to show subtle topography more clearly.  The sinusoidal shape of the horizon is an artifact (not just due to tilt, it's an error in mosaicking).
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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #146 on: 03/06/2019 09:22 pm »
Is it possible for Insight's robot arm to sweep off the dust from the solar panels when power levels start to get too low? Is that something they considered when designing it?

Might be worth a try at the end of primary mission when the reward is worth the risk involved in using the robot arm to clean the solar panel. It might damage the cells but if they don't try Insight will stop working anyway.

It has no brush, so it couldn't do that if they wanted to.

NASA considered solar-panel cleaning systems (compressed air, brushes, etc.) for the MER rovers, and decided they were not worth the weight. It was easier to just make the solar panels a bit larger in order to compensate for dust settling on the panels. InSight's solar panels are similarly designed so that even with some dust cover it will produce enough power to complete the primary mission.

However, last I heard NASA was doing some research into a system which would create an electrostatic charge to push dust off of solar panels. It doesn't have any moving parts, doesn't require a lot of power, and could be run every few days to prevent dust build up. I do not know what the status of that is.
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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #147 on: 03/06/2019 10:00 pm »
Just the horizon bit of the panorama.  There is approximately 1 full image missing from the full coverage of the horizon.  Below, a stretched version to show subtle topography more clearly.  The sinusoidal shape of the horizon is an artifact (not just due to tilt, it's an error in mosaicking).

Wow they really found a flat and boring bit of Mars. Although I think that's exactly what they wanted for this mission xD It's much less rocky than Viking 2's landing spot.
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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #148 on: 03/14/2019 01:32 pm »
#InSight in sight! Among a new showcase of pics from the ESA/Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is an image of the NASA InSight lander – the first time a European instrument has identified a lander on the Red Planet. #Insight arrived on Mars on 26 November 2018 to study the interior of the planet. Images of the lander have already been returned by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, but these are the first images from TGO.

See http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/ExoMars/InSight_lander_among_latest_ExoMars_image_bounty
« Last Edit: 03/14/2019 01:33 pm by jacqmans »
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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #149 on: 03/15/2019 07:52 am »
NASA's Insight lander snaps ghostly, hazy Mars sunset

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But watching the sunset over a vast, red, endless desert might be just as good. Especially when that desert is over 150 million miles away.

Thanks to NASA's InSight lander, which has planted itself in Mars' flat, smooth plain Elysium Planitia, you can do just that. The image above was snapped by NASA's most recent Mars transplant on March 10, the robot's 101st day at work on the Martian surface. Stitching a sequence of images by the lander's Instrument Deployment Camera (IDC) shows the splendorous sun setting over the Red Planet and disappearing beyond the horizon.

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #150 on: 03/22/2019 06:54 am »
Talks in this article about what options they are considering with the mole.

Engineers still studying problem with InSight heat flow probe

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Engineers are still trying to understand why one of the main instruments on NASA’s InSight Mars lander is stuck just below the Martian surface.

In presentations at the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference here March 18, project officials said they plan to spend the next few weeks determining why the probe on the Heat and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, designed to measure the heat flow in the interior of the planet, is stuck about 30 centimeters below the surface, well short of its desired depth of three to five meters.

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #151 on: 03/28/2019 03:11 pm »
Subtle movements in a timelapse focusing on the mole:

https://twitter.com/landru79/status/1111298657771507712
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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #152 on: 04/13/2019 11:13 pm »
Tests for the InSight 'Mole'

A blue box, a cubic metre of Mars-like sand, a rock, a fully-functional model of the Mars 'Mole' and a seismometer – these are the main components with which the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is simulating the current situation on Mars. After its first hammering operation on 28 February 2019, the DLR Heat and Physical Properties Package (HP³), the Mars Mole, was only able to drive itself about 30 centimetres into the Martian subsurface. DLR planetary researchers and engineers are now analysing how this could have happened and looking into what measures could be taken to remedy the situation. "We are investigating and testing various possible scenarios to find out what led to the 'Mole' stopping," explains Torben Wippermann, Test Leader at the DLR Institute of Space Systems in Bremen. The basis for the scientists' work: some images, temperature data, data from the radiometer and recordings made by the French Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) during a brief hammering test conducted on 26 March 2019.

When the NASA InSight lander arrived on the Martian surface, everything looked even better than expected. Although the lander's camera showed numerous rocks some distance away, the immediate surroundings were free of rocks and debris. The reason why the 'Mole' hammered its way quickly into the ground after being placed on the surface of Mars and was then unable to continue its progress is now being diagnosed remotely. "There are various possible explanations, to which we will have to react differently," says Matthias Grott, a planetary researcher and the HP³ Project Scientist. A possible explanation is that the 'Mole' has created a cavity around itself and is no longer sufficiently constrained by the friction between its body and the surrounding sand.

Another type of sand

In Bremen, DLR is now experimenting with a different type of sand: "Until now, our tests have been conducted using a Mars-like sand that is not very cohesive," explains Wippermann. This sand was used during earlier tests in which the 'Mole' hammered its way down a five-metre column in preparation for the mission. Now, the Mole's ground model will be tested in a box of sand that compacts quickly and in which cavities can be created by the hammering process. During some of the test runs, the researchers will also place a rock with a diameter of about 10 centimetres in the sand. Such an obstacle in the subsurface could also be the reason why the HP³ instrument has stopped penetrating further. In all experiments, a seismometer listens to the activity of the Earth-based 'Mole'. During the short 'diagnostic' hammering on Mars, SEIS recorded vibrations to learn more about the Mole's impact mechanism. Comparisons between the data obtained on Mars and the Earth-based tests help the researchers more closely understand the real-life situation. "Ideally, we will be able to reconstruct the processes on Mars as accurately as possible."

'Moles' on Earth as guinea pigs

The next steps will follow once the scientists know what caused the progress of the 'Mole' to come to a halt on 28 February 2019. Possible measures to allow the instrument to hammer further into the ground must then be meticulously tested and analysed on Earth. For this reason, a replica of the HP3 instrument has been shipped to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. There, the DLR researchers' findings can be used to test the interaction of the 'Mole', the support structure and the robotic arm to determine whether, for example, lifting or moving the external structure is the correct solution. "I think that it will be a few weeks before any further actions are carried out on Mars," says Grott. The break in activities for the Mars Mole will only come to an end once a solution has been found for the Earth-based 'Moles'.

https://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-33208/#/gallery/34019

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #153 on: 04/23/2019 08:21 pm »
April 23, 2019
RELEASE 19-032
NASA’s InSight Lander Captures Audio of First Likely ‘Quake’ on Mars

NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely “marsquake.”

The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander’s Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, was recorded on April 6, the lander’s 128th Martian day, or sol. This is the first recorded trembling that appears to have come from inside the planet, as opposed to being caused by forces above the surface, such as wind. Scientists still are examining the data to determine the exact cause of the signal.

This video and audio illustrates a seismic event detected by NASA's Mars InSight rover on April 6, 2019, the 128th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Three distinct kinds of sounds can be heard, all of them detected as ground vibrations by the spacecraft's seismometer, called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS): noise from Martian wind, the seismic event itself, and the spacecraft's robotic arm as it moves to take pictures.
Credits: NASA
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“InSight’s first readings carry on the science that began with NASA’s Apollo missions,” said InSight Principal Investigator Bruce Banerdt of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. “We’ve been collecting background noise up until now, but this first event officially kicks off a new field: Martian seismology!”

The new seismic event was too small to provide solid data on the Martian interior, which is one of InSight’s main objectives. The Martian surface is extremely quiet, allowing SEIS, InSight’s specially designed seismometer, to pick up faint rumbles. In contrast, Earth’s surface is quivering constantly from seismic noise created by oceans and weather. An event of this size in Southern California would be lost among dozens of tiny crackles that occur every day.

“The Martian Sol 128 event is exciting because its size and longer duration fit the profile of moonquakes detected on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions,” said Lori Glaze, Planetary Science Division director at NASA Headquarters.

NASA’s Apollo astronauts installed five seismometers that measured thousands of quakes while operating on the Moon between 1969 and 1977, revealing seismic activity on the Moon. Different materials can change the speed of seismic waves or reflect them, allowing scientists to use these waves to learn about the interior of the Moon and model its formation. NASA currently is planning to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024, laying the foundation that will eventually enable human exploration of Mars.

InSight’s seismometer, which the lander placed on the planet’s surface on Dec. 19, 2018, will enable scientists to gather similar data about Mars. By studying the deep interior of Mars, they hope to learn how other rocky worlds, including Earth and the Moon, formed.

 

This image, taken March 19, 2019 by a camera on NASA’s Mars InSight rover, shows the rover’s domed Wind and Thermal Shield, which covers its seismometer, the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, and the Martian surface in the background.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Three other seismic signals occurred on March 14 (Sol 105), April 10 (Sol 132) and April 11 (Sol 133). Detected by SEIS’ more sensitive Very Broad Band sensors, these signals were even smaller than the Sol 128 event and more ambiguous in origin. The team will continue to study these events to try to determine their cause.

Regardless of its cause, the Sol 128 signal is an exciting milestone for the team.

“We’ve been waiting months for a signal like this,” said Philippe Lognonné, SEIS team lead at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) in France. “It's so exciting to finally have proof that Mars is still seismically active. We're looking forward to sharing detailed results once we've had a chance to analyze them.”

Most people are familiar with quakes on Earth, which occur on faults created by the motion of tectonic plates. Mars and the Moon do not have tectonic plates, but they still experience quakes – in their cases, caused by a continual process of cooling and contraction that creates stress. This stress builds over time, until it is strong enough to break the crust, causing a quake.

Detecting these tiny quakes required a huge feat of engineering. On Earth, high-quality seismometers often are sealed in underground vaults to isolate them from changes in temperature and weather. InSight’s instrument has several ingenious insulating barriers, including a cover built by JPL called the Wind and Thermal Shield, to protect it from the planet's extreme temperature changes and high winds.

SEIS has surpassed the team’s expectations in terms of its sensitivity. The instrument was provided for InSight by the French space agency, Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), while these first seismic events were identified by InSight's Marsquake Service team, led by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

“We are delighted about this first achievement and are eager to make many similar measurements with SEIS in the years to come,” said Charles Yana, SEIS mission operations manager at CNES.

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. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission.

A number of European partners, including CNES and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), support the InSight mission. CNES provided the SEIS 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 (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland; Imperial College London and Oxford University in the United Kingdom; and JPL. DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, with significant contributions from the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Astronika in Poland. Spain’s Centro de Astrobiología supplied the temperature and wind sensors.

Listen to audio of this likely marsquake at:



For more information about InSight, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/insight

For more information about the agency’s Moon to Mars activities, visit

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #154 on: 04/24/2019 08:38 pm »
Maybe somebody can correct me, but I believe that at LPSC last month the InSight PI said that their models predicted between 10-12 seismic events per year. By that time the instrument had been operating for about six weeks, and he said that it was entirely reasonable that it had not yet detected anything--because those 10-12 events are not going to be evenly distributed. You could go months without a Marsquake and then get several in a few weeks.

That said, I bet they're really happy they finally detected something. The longer you go, the more you worry that something isn't working.

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #155 on: 04/24/2019 09:42 pm »
Maybe somebody can correct me, but I believe that at LPSC last month the InSight PI said that their models predicted between 10-12 seismic events per year. By that time the instrument had been operating for about six weeks, and he said that it was entirely reasonable that it had not yet detected anything--because those 10-12 events are not going to be evenly distributed. You could go months without a Marsquake and then get several in a few weeks.

That said, I bet they're really happy they finally detected something. The longer you go, the more you worry that something isn't working.

They know it is working though, it has heard the wind and the arm and the pounding of the mole. I guess the worry would be there are no Mars quakes? Or only seismic waves from impact events?

Any seismologists out there want to comment on what what an analogous wave form would represent on Earth?

Edit, found this quote while looking to answer above questions: "The Martian Sol 128 event is exciting because its size and longer duration fit the profile of moonquakes detected on the lunar surface during the Apollo missions," said Lori Glaze, Planetary Science Division director at NASA Headquarters.
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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #156 on: 04/24/2019 10:25 pm »
IIRC, they expect asteroid impacts will be far more frequent than true "mars-quakes," although impacts and quakes will have different seismic signatures. I'm no seismologist (though I do live in California). Earthquakes have precursor waves, and depending on the depth and size of the motion of the ground, can remain intense for relatively long periods of time. Whereas I think an impact would have a sharp initial intensity that would drop off relatively quickly.

Either or both will allow the seismometer to take readings on the interior of Mars. Also, quakes would have much more interesting implications for Martian geology =D
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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #157 on: 05/07/2019 08:30 pm »
For InSight, Dust Cleanings Will Yield New Science
NASA InSight lander
This is NASA InSight's second full selfie on Mars. Since taking its first selfie, the lander has removed its heat probe and seismometer from its deck, placing them on the Martian surface; a thin coating of dust now covers the spacecraft as well.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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The same winds that blanket Mars with dust can also blow that dust away. Catastrophic dust storms have the potential to end a mission, as with NASA's Opportunity rover. But far more often, passing winds cleared off the rover's solar panels and gave it an energy boost. Those dust clearings allowed Opportunity and its sister rover, Spirit, to survive for years beyond their 90-day expiration dates.

Dust clearings are also expected for Mars' newest inhabitant, the InSight lander. Because of the spacecraft's weather sensors, each clearing can provide crucial science data on these events, as well — and the mission already has a glimpse at that.

On Feb. 1, the 65th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, InSight detected a passing wind vortex (also known as a dust devil if it picks up dust and becomes visible; InSight's cameras didn't catch the vortex in this case). At the same time, the lander's two large solar panels experienced very small bumps in power — about 0.7% on one panel and 2.7% on the other — suggesting a tiny amount of dust was lifted.

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Those are whispers compared to cleanings observed by the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, where dust-clearing wind gusts occasionally boosted power by as much as 10% and left solar panels visibly cleaner. But the recent event has given scientists their first measurements of wind and dust interacting "live" on the Martian surface; none of NASA's solar-powered rovers have included meteorological sensors that record so much round-the-clock data. In time, data from dust cleanings could inform the design of solar-powered missions as well as research on how wind sculpts the landscape.

"It didn't make a significant difference to our power output, but this first event is fascinating science," said InSight science team member Ralph Lorenz of Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. "It gives us a starting point for understanding how the wind is driving changes on the surface. We still don't really know how much wind it takes to lift dust on Mars."

Engineers regularly calculate a "dust factor," a measure of how much dust is covering the panels, when analyzing InSight's solar power. While they saw no change in dust factor around the time of this passing dust devil, they saw a clear increase in electrical current, suggesting it did lift a little bit of dust.

Key to measuring these cleanings are InSight's weather sensors, collectively known as the Auxiliary Payload Sensor Suite, or APSS. During this first dust event, APSS saw a steady increase in wind speed and a sharp drop in air pressure — the signature of a passing dust devil.

The wind direction changed by about 180 degrees, which would be expected if a dust devil had passed directly over the lander. APSS measured a peak wind speed of 45 miles per hour (20 meters per second). But it also detected the biggest air pressure drop ever recorded by a Mars surface mission: 9 pascals, or 13% of ambient pressure. That pressure drop suggests there may have been even stronger winds that were too turbulent for sensors to record.

"The absolute fastest wind we've directly measured so far from InSight was 63 miles per hour (28 meters per second), so the vortex that lifted dust off our solar panels was among the strongest winds we've seen," said InSight participating scientist Aymeric Spiga of the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory at Sorbonne University in Paris. "Without a passing vortex, the winds are more typically between about 4-20 miles per hour (2-10 meters per second), depending on time of day."

This dust lifting happened at 1:33 p.m. local Mars time, which is also consistent with the detection of a dust devil. On both Mars and Earth, the highest levels of dust devil activity are usually seen between about noon and 3 p.m., when the intensity of sunlight is strongest and the ground is hot compared with the air above it.

InSight landed on Nov. 26, 2018, in Elysium Planitia, a windy region on the Martian equator. The lander has already detected many passing dust devils, and Lorenz said it's likely the spacecraft will see a number of large dust cleanings over the course of its two-year prime mission.

Each of InSight's dinner-table-size solar panels has gathered a thin dust layer since landing. Their power output has fallen about 30% since then, due both to dust as well as Mars to moving farther from the Sun. Today the panels produce about 2,700 watt-hours per sol — plenty of energy for daily operations, which require roughly 1,500 watt-hours per sol.

The mission's power engineers are still waiting for the kind of dust cleaning Spirit and Opportunity experienced. But even if they don't see one for a while, they have ample power.

About InSight

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. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission.

A number of European partners, including France's Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are supporting the InSight mission. CNES provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument to NASA, with the principal investigator at IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris). Significant contributions for SEIS came from IPGP; the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland; Imperial College London and Oxford University in the United Kingdom; and JPL. DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, with significant contributions from the Space Research Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Astronika in Poland. Spain's Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) supplied the temperature and wind sensors.

For more information about InSight, visit:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/for-insight-dust-cleanings-will-yield-new-science

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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #158 on: 05/08/2019 03:40 pm »
Animation of HP3 showing some wiggling, possibly due to the ongoing troubleshooting:

https://twitter.com/landru79/status/1126141561354498048
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Re: InSight Mission Updates (Post Landing)
« Reply #159 on: 05/10/2019 03:00 pm »
For InSight, Dust Cleanings Will Yield New Science
NASA InSight lander
This is NASA InSight's second full selfie on Mars. Since taking its first selfie, the lander has removed its heat probe and seismometer from its deck, placing them on the Martian surface; a thin coating of dust now covers the spacecraft as well.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech


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