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Jan 7 2012, 08:29 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
the GEMS Discovery finalist has been renamed InSight and now has its own website: http://insight.jpl.nasa.gov/
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Apr 18 2021, 04:02 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Maybe with the Vera Rubin Observatory coming on-line we'll get a chance to detect a Mars impactor before it hits, and send a few landers beforehand. It has sub-km detection capabilities out to the Main Belt.
https://www.lsst.org/scientists/publication...lometer%20sizes. -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Apr 18 2021, 04:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
I see an estimate that the Tunguska Event would have been about a Richter 5.0 so the occurrence of impacts on Mars bigger than the quakes already recorded might be frustratingly rare, or subject to rare good luck. And, while an impact can tell you a lot about how the planetary bell rings, it doesn't give you the information that a quake does about endogenous activity.
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