Media Teleconference - May 17, 2022
NASA and InSight leaders will share the latest on the pioneering spacecraft’s science findings and discuss future milestones for the mission.
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) on Tuesday, May 17, to provide an update on the agency’s InSight Mars lander. NASA leadership and mission team members will highlight InSight’s science accomplishments, share details on the spacecraft’s power situation, and discuss its future.
Audio of the briefing, as well as supporting graphics, will livestream at:
The teleconference participants will include:
- Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California
- Kathya Zamora Garcia, InSight deputy project manager, JPL
- Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington
The public can submit questions on social media during the teleconference using #AskNASA.
Bruce Banerdt
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This video includes a seismogram and sonification of the signals recorded by NASA’s InSight Mars lander, which detected an estimated magnitude 5 quake on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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InSight’s seismometer is underneath the domed Wind and Thermal Shield, which protects it from atmospheric changes that can add literal noise to the seismometer’s data. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Download Image
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This infographic shows how InSight uses a seismometer and quakes 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 Download Image
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NASA’s InSight lander team enjoyed this Mars-shaped cake on the first anniversary of the spacecraft’s Nov. 26, 2018, landing. The cake came complete with its own inner layers – just like the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Download Image
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InSight captured this sunrise on Mars using the camera on its robotic arm on April 10, 2022, the 1,198th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Download Image
Kathya Zamora Garcia
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InSight’s solar panels produced roughly 5,000 watt-hours each Martian day, or sol, after the spacecraft touched down in November 2018. But by spring 2022, enough dust had settled on the panels that they were only producing about 500 watt-hours each sol. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Download Image
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This brief timeline shows the expectations InSight’s team has for key activities during the rest of 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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On May 22, 2021, the 884th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, InSight used the scoop on its robotic arm to “sprinkle” sand near one of its solar panels, allowing the wind to carry the sand grains over the panel, effectively cleaning it. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Download Image
Lori Glaze
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This graphic shows Venus, Earth and its Moon, and Mars. Credit: NASA Download Image
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NASA’s InSight lander captured this sunset on Mars using the camera on its robotic arm on April 10, 2022, the 1,198th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Download Image
InSight Overview Video
NASA’s InSight Mars lander team speak about the mission’s science and the innovative ways they took on engineering challenges. During its time on Mars, InSight has achieved all its primary science goals and continues to hunt for quakes. Its mission is expected to conclude around the end of 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech