NASA Sets Sights on May 5 Launch of InSight to Mars

NASA’s next mission to Mars, Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight), is scheduled to launch Saturday, May 5, on a first-ever mission to study the heart of the Red Planet. Coverage of prelaunch and launch activities begins Thursday, May 3, on NASA Television and the agency’s website. The prelaunch briefing and launch commentary will be streamed […]

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Dune morphodynamics around the polar cap of Mars

Researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) and the Université Paris-Diderot in collaboration with climatologists from the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) have just developed a method to trace wind conditions from the morphodynamics of the dunes on the surface of Mars. Their method is valid under any conditions and can therefore be applied as well […]

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France’s SEIS seismometer on InSight mission set to listen to the beating heart of Mars

Thursday 19 April 2018, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Antoine Petit, Chairman & CEO of CNRS, the French national scientific research centre, presented the InSight mission (INterior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport), the 12th mission of NASA’s Discovery Program. CNES and DLR, the German space agency, are both contributing to the mission. Philippe Lognonné, Principal Investigator […]

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