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 …

China's Mars exploration mission and science investigation

C Li, R Zhang, D Yu, G Dong, J Liu, Y Geng… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
China's first Mars exploration mission (Huo**ng-1) has been named as 'Tianwen-1'meaning
Heaven Inquiry. Tianwen-1 was launched on July 23, 2020. In this paper, the scientific …

Geophysical evidence for an enriched molten silicate layer above Mars's core

H Samuel, M Drilleau, A Rivoldini, Z Xu, Q Huang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The detection of deep reflected S waves on Mars inferred a core size of 1,830±40 km (ref.),
requiring light-element contents that are incompatible with experimental petrological …

Thickness and structure of the Martian crust from InSight seismic data

B Knapmeyer-Endrun, MP Panning, F Bissig, R Joshi… - Science, 2021 - science.org
A planet's crust bears witness to the history of planetary formation and evolution, but for
Mars, no absolute measurement of crustal thickness has been available. Here, we …

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 …

S1222a—The largest marsquake detected by InSight

T Kawamura, JF Clinton, G Zenhäusern… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
NASA's InSight has detected a large magnitude seismic event, labeled S1222a. The event
has a moment magnitude of 4.7, with five times more seismic moment compared to the …

[HTML][HTML] Precision magnetometers for aerospace applications: A review

JS Bennett, BE Vyhnalek, H Greenall, EM Bridge… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aerospace technologies are crucial for modern civilization; space-based infrastructure
underpins weather forecasting, communications, terrestrial navigation and logistics …

Ground magnetic survey on Mars from the Zhurong rover

A Du, Y Ge, H Wang, H Li, Y Zhang, H Luo, C Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mars' magnetic field has been measured at large scale by orbiting spacecraft and at very
small scale via Martian meteorites. Here we report on a ground magnetic survey on metre to …

Paleomagnetic evidence for a long-lived, potentially reversing martian dynamo at~ 3.9 Ga

SC Steele, RR Fu, MWR Volk, TL North, AR Brenner… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The 4.1-billion-year-old meteorite Allan Hills 84001 (ALH 84001) may preserve a magnetic
record of the extinct martian dynamo. However, previous paleomagnetic studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Companion guide to the marsquake catalog from InSight, Sols 0–478: Data content and non-seismic events

S Ceylan, JF Clinton, D Giardini, M Böse… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat
Transport) mission landed on the surface of Mars on November 26, 2018. One of the …