NASA's InSight mission on Mars-first glimpses of the planet's interior from seismology

Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun; Taichi Kawamura

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15251-7

NASA's InSight mission on Mars-first glimpses of the planet's interior from seismology

Nat Commun. 2020 Mar 19;11(1):1451. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15251-7.

Authors

Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun¹, Taichi Kawamura²

Affiliations

¹ Bensberg Observatory, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. bknapmey@uni-koeln.de.
² Université de Paris, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France.

Abstract

NASA’s InSight mission is the first lander to deploy a seismometer on a planetary 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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.