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Feb 5 2019, 03:23 AM
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Feb 9 2019, 05:45 AM
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MRO has spotted SEIS deployed.
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Feb 10 2019, 11:23 PM
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Feb 11 2019, 01:55 PM
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Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1597 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
SEIS Installation 3, the installation of the Wind and Thermal Shield, is posted here (translated by Google in the first)
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=a...-installation-3 https://www.seis-insight.eu/fr/actualites/4...-installation-3 QUOTE the thermal performances are very good, and the impact on the temperature variations of the different components of the seismometer is clearly visible. Finally, the reduction of the noise level is absolutely spectacular They were briefly worried about the skirt being stuck, but it's good. |
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Feb 11 2019, 02:56 PM
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Feb 12 2019, 02:44 AM
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"At that moment, nothing that moves on Mars will be able to escape the seismometer of the probe InSight "
That sounds awesome. |
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Feb 12 2019, 02:56 AM
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Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Hmm. I suppose that means that it'll be able to pick up those seasonal polar cap landslides in the north, then. Hopefully there will be an effort to correlate seismic signals with those events, presumably via MRO before-and-after imagery.
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Feb 12 2019, 10:18 AM
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Feb 12 2019, 11:09 AM
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Feb 12 2019, 05:44 PM
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Hmm. I suppose that means that it'll be able to pick up those seasonal polar cap landslides in the north, then. Hopefully there will be an effort to correlate seismic signals with those events, presumably via MRO before-and-after imagery. From a scientific point of view, I have to admit that I may have been a little bit over enthusiastic with the last sentence of the WTS news quoted just above ! Given the sensibility of SEIS's seismic sensors, and the noise level we have under the WTS, we are in a good place to detect very small ground displacements. But, it is only true if the seismic energy is able to reach the seismometer ! If the seismic waves are strongly attenuated by something (such as the regolith ?), if SEIS is in a shadow zone of a given quake, or if the source is very far away (epicenter opposite to the landing site, meaning on the other side of the planet, etc.), we will not be able to detect something. That's the problem with having only one seismometer. Of course, planetary geophysicists wanted a seismic/atm networks from the very beginning (see for example the incredible scope of the MESUR project in 1990's), but having InSight with its single seismometer at the surface of Mars was already excruciatingly difficult. |
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Feb 13 2019, 12:00 AM
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Newbie ![]() Group: Members Posts: 17 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 317 |
HP3 is on the ground!
I wonder what happened with the positioning of the arm though. The grapple is hanging at an odd angle now. DLR is happy: ![]() Link to DLR tweet. |
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Feb 13 2019, 01:49 AM
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![]() Forum Contributor ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1374 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
It's a lot closer to SEIS than I was expecting.
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Feb 13 2019, 07:38 AM
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Heck yes. Looks scary close to a super sensitive seismometer. But in hindsight, it could never be very far away and I'm sure the dynamics are well understood.
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Feb 13 2019, 10:03 AM
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Feb 14 2019, 12:30 AM
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Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 866 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 196 |
There's a new article on the Insight page though doesn't say much new other than it being deployed ~1 meter from SEIS
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