{"id":85470,"date":"2020-02-27T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13961"},"modified":"2021-04-05T14:12:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T08:42:25","slug":"explained-insight-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-insight-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s InSight mission for Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Recently, the findings of 10 months of NASA\u2019s InSight mission on Mars are described in a set of six papers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>About InSight mission:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission is a robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars<\/li>\r\n<li>The mission is part of NASA\u2019s Discovery Program. It is supported by a number of European partners, which include France\u2019s Centre National d\u2019\u00c9tudes Spatiales (CNES), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Objectives of the mission:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>To uncover how a rocky body forms and evolves to become a planet by investigating the interior structure and composition of Mars.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>To determine the rate of Martian tectonic activity and meteorite impacts.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Key findings of the InSight mission:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Seismically active:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Mars is seismically active through the detection of hundreds of quakes some of which can be traced to a volcanic region nearly 1,000 miles away.<\/li>\r\n<li>However, Mars doesn\u2019t have tectonic plates like Earth, but it does have volcanically active regions that can cause rumbles.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Magnetism:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Billions of years ago, Mars used to have a global magnetic field.But that\u2019s no longer the case as what is left behind are what NASA describes as ghosts i.e magnetized rocks that are between 61 m to several km below ground.<\/li>\r\n<li>However, the mission has also found that the field surrounding the lander has 10 times stronger magnetic field than that predicted by scientists.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Dust Devils:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>The weather sensors have detected thousands of passing whirlwinds, which are called dust devils.<\/li>\r\n<li>However, despite detecting the dust devils, the lander has been unable to capture one on camera.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, the findings of 10 months of NASA\u2019s InSight mission on Mars are described in a set of six papers. Facts: About InSight mission: The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) mission is a robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars The mission is part&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-insight-mission\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA&#8217;s InSight mission for Mars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2820,580],"class_list":["post-85470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-insight-mission","tag-nasa","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}