More InSights? |
More InSights? |
Oct 31 2022, 05:51 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 21 Joined: 5-January 20 Member No.: 8735 |
The InSight mission has be very interesting to follow. I wonder how feasible it would be to build a handful of identical landers and disperse them to various locations around Mars. The seismometers could work in tandem, and the weather stations could watch conditions in multiple places. The moles could experiment with other types of soil. Not to mention new ground photos of some more regions.
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Oct 31 2022, 06:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2547 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
I wonder how feasible it would be to build a handful of identical landers and disperse them to various locations around Mars. No problem, if you have about $600M per vehicle exclusive of launch and operations cost. https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-mars-insight -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Oct 31 2022, 06:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1670 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
-------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Oct 31 2022, 07:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2547 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
Reminds me of this proposal for MetNet: Proposals for networks go back to at least MESUR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESUR But as I understand it, Insight-quality seismometers are hard to accommodate on small fixed-base landers. Met instruments are much less challenging. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Nov 1 2022, 02:26 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 254 Joined: 14-January 22 Member No.: 9140 |
InSight provided information that wasn't previously available regarding the challenges of martian seismology, including the noise from wind. Of course, the failure of the heat probe mole and the lack of dust-clearing events at the InSight location were two other pieces of bad news from which a subsequent mission could learn. I don't know how those upgrades would compete against other possible missions, but it seems like sooner or later, there'll be a next, better Mars internal structure mission.
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