AWESOME ASTRONOMY   /     Gaining InSight

Subtitle
#148 Part 2 Awesome Astronomy October 2024
Duration
01:18:33
Publishing date
2024-10-18 22:42
Link
https://awesomeastronomy.libsyn.com/gaining-insight
Contributors
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Meet Dr Anna Horleston from Bristol University.

NASA’s InSight lander was active on Mars from November 2018 to December 2022 – a total of 1446 sols (Martian days). InSight carried a suite of geophysical instruments designed to help us understand the interior structure of the red planet. The primary instrument was a seismometer – the first seismometer to be deployed to the surface of Mars – and my job was to analyse the seismic data, to find Marsquakes (like earthquakes but on Mars), and to figure out what was causing them. I’ll take you through the highs and lows of working on an active NASA mission, the real meaning of “remote working”, and show you some of the amazing results from the mission.