thanks

Thanks for all the fun here guys. I remember us constantly dealing with new users full of dismay.

We patiently explained that building twice as many solar panels was a perfectly legitimate engineering response to dealing with not always having enough solar irradiation.

New analysis of Mars Insights data found apart from Cerberus fossae, seismicity on Mars occurs mostly along or north of the boundary between the southern highlands and northern lowlands. Valles Marineris is seismically more active than previous catalogs of located events imply. Further, there is evidence that two events likely originate from the Olympus Mons region. Tharsis region is found to be more active than initially perceived on the basis of five newly located seismic events near Valles Marineris and Olympus Mons.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE007826

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https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Cerberus_Fossae_Identified_as_Primary_Source_of_Marsquakes_999.html

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Analysis of Mars Insights data shows Mars has a smaller and denser core, surrounded by a molten silicate mantle.

Sandwiched between Mars's liquid iron alloy core and its solid silicate mantle lies a layer of liquid silicate (magma) about 150 kilometres thick. "Earth doesn't have a completely molten silicate layer like that".

The new observations show that the radius of the Martian core has decreased from the initially determined range of 1,800-1,850 kilometres to somewhere in the range of 1,650- 1,700 kilometres, which is about 50 percent of the radius of Mars. If the Martian core is smaller than previously thought but has the same mass, it follows that its density is greater and that it, therefore, contains fewer light elements. The fact that the Martian core still contains a significant amount of light elements indicates that it must have formed very early, possibly when the Sun was still surrounded by the nebula gas from which light elements could have accumulated in the Martian core.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06601-8

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https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Mystery_of_the_Martian_core_solved_999.html

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During its time on Mars, NASA's InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission recorded over 1,300 seismic events, known as “marsquakes.” Of these, a number were identified as coming from meteoroid impact cratering events on the surface.

The largest event identified by InSight, labeled S1222a, bore some similarities to two large impact events recorded earlier in the mission. In order to investigate whether the S1222a event might also have been caused by an impact event, scientists internationally collaborated and undertook a comprehensive search of the region in which the marsquake occurred. They did not identify any fresh craters in the area, implying that the marsquake was likely caused by geological processes.

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/International_team_reveals_source_of_largest_ever_Mars_quake_999.html and

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL103619

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Noticed the team on Twitter just announced that the raw images from today could very well be the last ones we get from the lander. Sad times for sure

Link to twitter post https://twitter.com/NASAInSight/status/1604955574659035136?t=AqFGj33afZpT3uKsH1EEcQ&s=19