Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

NASA’s InSight mission on Mars—first glimpses of the planet’s interior from seismology

  • Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun,
  • Taichi Kawamura

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15251-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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NASA’s InSight mission is the first lander to deploy a seismometer on a planetary body since more than 40 years. With a year of seismic data from Mars, new discoveries on Mars’ tectonics and interior structure are just emerging.