New Life: NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Science Operations
NASA’s InSight Mars lander uses a seismometer to study the inner layers of Mars. Seismic signals from quakes change as they pass through different kinds of materials; seismologists can “read” the squiggles of a seismogram to study the properties of the planet’s crust, mantle, and core. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The InSight mission’s team has chosen to …
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