NASA’s InSight mission on Mars—first glimpses of the planet’s interior from seismology

Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun (1) , Taichi Kawamura (2)

1 Universität zu Köln = University of Cologne
2 IPGP (UMR_7154) - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

NASA’s InSight mission is thefirst lander to deploy a seismometer on a pla-netary body since more than 40 years. With a year of seismic data from Mars, new discoveries on Mars’tectonics and interior structure are just emerging

Domaines: Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Géophysique [physics.geo-ph]

Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun, Taichi Kawamura. NASA’s InSight mission on Mars—first glimpses of the planet’s interior from seismology. Nature Communications, 2020, 11, pp.1451. ⟨10.1038/s41467-020-15251-7⟩. ⟨insu-02533996⟩