Some press from JPL about the findings from the RISE instrument:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-insight-study-finds-mars-is-spinning-faster
Good to hear about quality data from this idea, which was something they wanted to do with MER, had ever one of the two stopped moving while power positive. IIRC.
Late on Sol 1222 of its total 1440, Insight detected its largest quake during the hours it happened to be listening.
It is now presumed to be tectonic, as no evidence of an impact was detected from orbiters.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103619
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-10-17-new-study-reveals-source-largest-ever-mars-quake
I'd love to see a final visualization like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfrHDTlxHHc&t=790s
Back in the final days I figured the noisy season to start sol 1220 and this big one came the night of 1223. And on Planetary Radio it sounded like by 1222 the instrument might have been off during noisy parts of the day, so final sols might cut out midday, when they never heard much.
Impact rate higher as measured than theorized:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/07/insight-meteoroid-impact-rate/
A number of media articles on this paper today:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409983121
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