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French SEIS seismometer safe and tight under protective wind and thermal shield

A domed shield has been successfully placed over the InSight lander’s main SEIS scientific instrument to shield it from wind and temperature…

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© NASA / C. Pabst et al. Nature (2019)
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Massive stars make waves

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© Gabriel Pérez Diaz, IAC
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Gamma-ray astrophysics: the Southern CTA Observatory will be installed in Chile

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory today announced the signing of three agreements for the construction of its southern site in Chile,…

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French SEIS seismometer deployed on Mars

InSight has successfully set down the SEIS seismometer (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure)on the surface of the red planet. While this…

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Discovery of a gaseous exoplanet in the process of "boiling away"

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France-United States space cooperation - French science instrument on InSight ‘hears’ sound of Martian winds for the first time

Teams at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have begun checking out InSight on Mars after the excitement and tension of its…

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France-United States space cooperation - InSight Mars exploration mission - First tests of French SEIS seismometer successful

After the excitement and tension of its successful landing on Mars on Monday 26 November, InSight has started powering up and checking out its…

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A new method for weighing super-massive black holes

Scientists have revealed, for the first time outside our Galaxy, the properties of rapidly moving gas clouds in the immediate vicinity of a super…

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France-United States space cooperation - French science on Mars - InSight lands on Mars with French SEIS seismometer

Monday 26 November at 20:54 CET, InSight (INterior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) landed on Mars with the…

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BepiColombo: Europe and Japan embark on the conquest of Mercury

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