For those with sweet teeth, the holiday season is like the everlasting bloom of sugar cane, so it is in the spirit of these yuletide times that the people of NASA have just an image of the interior of the Red Planet revealed as something resembling her three-dimensional cake.
The data that allows the study of Mars’s baking shape under its crust comes with permission from the space agency’s Insight Mars lawyer, who sent back to scientists the first geological separation of another planet as well as the Earth.
The intrepid probe discovered that Mars is made up of three-dimensional crust made up of different types of rock piled on top of each other just like a cosmic birthday cake. These exposures will help astronomers, planetary geologists, and aerospace engineers understand more about the history of the origins and false evolution of the Red Planet.
With the landlord’s difficulty in using and excavating the “mole” probe in his Martian soil, Insight was pivoted and fortunately was able to gather details about the rocky layers using a curved seismometer provided by the French space agency, the National Center d’Études Spatiales (CNES).
Capturing the nature of several storms of seismic waves, scientists back home were able to study the thickness of each Mars chip and find out how far the waves were and their path immune through these puddings.
First launched in May of 2018, InSight, an acronym for internal exploration using seismic explorations, geodesy and the Heat Transport mission, is a specialized robotic surface designed to explore the mysteries of Mars make-up.
His main mission objectives are to explore the inner depths of the planet. Landing in the Elysium Planitia region near the Martian equator on November 26, 2018, it monitors and collects data that will help us understand the formation of the rocky planets of the solar system. billions of years earlier.
This year, the InSight-based location detected hundreds of small earthquakes, most of which were no larger than 3.7 magnitude, and collected the most complete weather data of any surface mission that went down on Mars.
“Having studied more than 480 marsquakes, we have enough data to begin to answer some of these big questions,” said NASA researcher and InSight chief investigator Bruce Banerdt.
Initial analysis and numerical analysis suggest that each of Mars’ planetary layers measures between 12 to 23 miles thick, which is much thicker than Earth’s oceanic crust but thinner than a large cover. -land of our planet.
“Sometimes you get great flavors of amazing information, but most of the time you pick up on what nature has to tell you,” Banerdt said. “It’s more like trying to find difficult records than giving us the answers in a neatly wrapped package. “