Initial results from the InSight mission on Mars

WB Banerdt, SE Smrekar, D Banfield, D Giardini… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
NASA's InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat
Transport) mission landed in Elysium Planitia on Mars on 26 November 2018. It aims to …

[HTML][HTML] SEIS: Insight's seismic experiment for internal structure of Mars

P Lognonné, WB Banerdt, D Giardini, WT Pike… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
By the end of 2018, 42 years after the landing of the two Viking seismometers on Mars,
InSight will deploy onto Mars' surface the SEIS (S eismic E xperiment for I nternal S tructure) …

The atmosphere of Mars as observed by InSight

D Banfield, A Spiga, C Newman, F Forget… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The atmosphere of Mars is thin, although rich in dust aerosols, and covers a dry surface. As
such, Mars provides an opportunity to expand our knowledge of atmospheres beyond that …

Surface waves and crustal structure on Mars

D Kim, WB Banerdt, S Ceylan, D Giardini, V Lekić… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We detected surface waves from two meteorite impacts on Mars. By measuring group
velocity dispersion along the impact-lander path, we obtained a direct constraint on crustal …

Geology of the InSight landing site on Mars

M Golombek, NH Warner, JA Grant, E Hauber… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport
(InSight) spacecraft landed successfully on Mars and imaged the surface to characterize the …

Crustal and time-varying magnetic fields at the InSight landing site on Mars

CL Johnson, A Mittelholz, B Langlais, CT Russell… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Magnetic fields provide a window into a planet's interior structure and evolution, including its
atmospheric and space environments. Satellites at Mars have measured crustal magnetic …

The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) for the InSight Mission

T Spohn, M Grott, SE Smrekar, J Knollenberg… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package HP 3 for the InSight mission will
attempt the first measurement of the planetary heat flow of Mars. The data will be taken at the …

The InSight-HP3 mole on Mars: Lessons learned from attempts to penetrate to depth in the Martian soil

T Spohn, TL Hudson, L Witte, T Wippermann… - Advances in Space …, 2022 - Elsevier
The NASA InSight lander mission to Mars payload includes the Heat Flow and Physical
Properties Package HP 3 to measure the surface heat flow. The package was designed to …

InSight constraints on the global character of the Martian crust

MA Wieczorek, A Broquet… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Analyses of seismic data from the InSight mission have provided the first in situ constraints
on the thickness of the crust of Mars. These crustal thickness constraints are currently limited …

[HTML][HTML] A review towards the design of extraterrestrial structures: From regolith to human outposts

N Kalapodis, G Kampas, OJ Ktenidou - Acta Astronautica, 2020 - Elsevier
The design of a permanent human habitat on a planetary body other than the Earth is an
idea introduced many decades ago, which became even more significant after the landing of …