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InSight Surface Operations, 26 Nov 2018- 21 Dec 2022
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post Dec 19 2019, 04:05 AM
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Does anyone know if there are any preliminary results from the RISE experiment?

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post Dec 19 2019, 11:30 AM
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a quick recap of InSight's first scientific results on today's Nature

‘Marsquakes’ reveal red planet’s hidden geology

I think I read somewhere that the first papers were going to be published this week in Science (or Nature) but I'm not sure
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post Dec 20 2019, 03:37 PM
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“…but that they expected InSight’s landing place to have cohesionless soils because that’s what other Martian landing sites have been like.
InSight seems to have been unlucky enough to land in a place where the soil is compacted into a harder material called a duricrust,…”
What would have happened if they had landed at VL or VL2 landing sites, with high soil cohesion ?
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post Dec 22 2019, 12:29 PM
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Last hammer session of the year on sol 380

Animated IDC GIF: indicates a slowing of progress as the session progressed, then a minuscule bounce? before a little more downward progress? Hopefully a few more images in the pipeline smile.gif

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post Dec 22 2019, 09:12 PM
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^COOL!


Can you combine it with last clip?
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post Dec 23 2019, 12:44 AM
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QUOTE (Decepticon @ Dec 23 2019, 05:12 AM) *
Can you combine it with last clip?

Here you go.... link
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post Dec 23 2019, 03:37 AM
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Almost as if it is running into something hard.
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post Dec 23 2019, 03:45 AM
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QUOTE (ddeerrff @ Dec 23 2019, 11:37 AM) *
Almost as if it is running into something hard.

The team mentioned a hard duricrust layer, I'm not sure if they know how thick that layer is, but progress of the mole slowed at this depth last time. Fingers crossed it's almost through that harder layer...
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post Dec 23 2019, 12:21 PM
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The DLR HP3 blog for the mole has been updated (December 23, 2019) smile.gif

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post Dec 23 2019, 02:56 PM
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QUOTE (PaulH51 @ Dec 23 2019, 04:45 AM) *
Fingers crossed it's almost through that harder layer...

As the update explains, it seems that the cohesionless sand below the duricrust is the problem. They need friction to make progress.
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post Jan 8 2020, 11:46 PM
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not much going on mole-wise, so looking for environmental subtleties, here's ten frames from 14 sols: 383//385//387/388/389/390/391///394/395/396 all are taken at within one second of each other 15:53:49 to highlight any wind effects as well as some unexpectedly noticeable seasonal illumination changes.
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post Jan 9 2020, 12:51 AM
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Seems like the scoop is getting a bit dusty?
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post Jan 9 2020, 09:57 PM
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pretty much all was deposited between sol383 and sol385 must have been a particularly windy sol to have kicked up that much, but unfortunately the date range has cycled out (where to find full data?) so cant tell if those sols had anything above the normal max gusts...
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post Jan 12 2020, 08:32 AM
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Hammer attempt? Sol 400 Scoop movement, but I don't see any obvious movement by the mole.

Processed frames used to assemble this animated GIF using the three frames where there was movement. I guess other frames maybe in the pipeline?

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post Jan 12 2020, 04:56 PM
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Putting more pressure on the mole at this stage, I think, with a hammer to follow.

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