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20 April 2019

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

The SEIS seismometer on the InSight mission detects the first marsquake!

Le 19 décembre 2018, l’atterrisseur de la NASA, InSight, déposait le sismomètre français, SEIS sur la surface de Mars. Le 6 avril 2019, 128ème jour ma...

05 March 2019

Observatories, Press, Research

ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter satellite immortalises InSight from Martian orbit

On March 2nd 2019, the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) probe of the European Space Agency's ExoMars program succeeded in photographing the InSight probe on th...

02 February 2019

General public, Press, Research

Removal of wind and heat shield

On Mars, deployment operations for the WTS wind and heat shield began just after the SEIS seismometer service loop was fully opened on sol 61.

19 December 2018

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

The SEIS seismometer is equipped with a solar compass to find geographic north

Despite the incredible complexity of the Mars probes placed on the surface of Mars, finding the position of the geographic North Pole on the Red Plane...

19 December 2018

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

The SEIS seismometer has now landed on Mars

NASA has just successfully landed the InSight probe's SEIS seismometer on Mars. This is the first time in the history of the conquest of space that an...

15 December 2018

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InSight's instrument drop-off area has been reproduced on Earth

Shortly after landing on November 26th, the InSight probe began to map in detail the few square metres of south-facing terrain just in front of the ro...

06 December 2018

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The HiRise super-camera locates InSight on the surface of Mars

The exact location of the InSight lander on the surface of the Red Planet has just been determined thanks to the HiRise super-camera on NASA's Mars Re...

01 December 2018

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First sound recordings of Mars by the InSight probe

The short-period (SP) sensors on the SEIS seismometer and the ultrasensitive pressure sensor on InSight's APSS weather station have probably just retu...

26 November 2018

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The IPGP logo is now on Mars!

The logos of the space laboratories, including the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, that built the SEIS seismometer or produced its onboard sof...

16 November 2018

Observatories, Press

Landing of InSight probe

After years of research, months of fine-tuning, thousands of working hours, a journey of 485 million kilometers, and "7 minutes of terror", the InSigh...

05 May 2018

Events, Observatories, Press

InSight launch

At 4:05 am (Pacific time) on Saturday May 5, the Atlas V rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, sending the InSight probe to Ma...

03 May 2018

Events, Observatories, Press

InSight press conference

Two days before the launch of the InSight mission, NASA organised a major press conference at the Vandenberg military base. Scientists and managers fr...