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Small Seismic Sensor on InSight
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Caption:
A copy of one of the sensors on NASA InSight's seismometer, compared to a 2-euro coin (about 1 inch wide). The short-period seismometer has three of these sensors.
Background Info:
JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
France's national space agency, Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), Paris, leads the consortium that provided SEIS. The principal investigator for SEIS is Philippe Lognonné of the Institute of Earth Physics of Paris (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, or IPGP). Imperial College, London, and Oxford University made the short-period sensors.
For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/insight .
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Mars | |
| System | ||
| Target Type | Planet | |
| Mission | InSight | |
| Instrument Host | InSight Lander | |
| Host Type | Lander | |
| Instrument | ||
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Color | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2018-12-07 | |
| Date in Caption | ||
| Image Credit | Imperial College London | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22926 | |
| Identifier | PIA22926 | |
