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all right so what is next for nasa's

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mars insight lander we announced last

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week that the lander will head into

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retirement in just a couple months as

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the solar power winds down but until

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then insight is still hunting mars

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quakes one of its main goals since

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landing on the red planet in 2018

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and i'm raquel villanueva here at nasa's

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jet propulsion laboratory we are going

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to give you a behind-the-scenes look at

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a really unique place on lab which is

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this mars testing area

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and we'll also be answering some of your

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questions about the insight lander now

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we're coming to you live from the in

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situ instrument laboratory it's a space

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designed like the surfs of mars so

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engineers can conduct tests under

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similar conditions and behind us that is

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foresight it is insights earth twin used

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for testing the model is an exact

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duplicate of insight minus a few things

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that have been removed like the solar

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panels but it gets the name foresight

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because engineers practice doing

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everything the lander will do on mars

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here first and we are joined by two

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members of the insight team

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testbed lead renee mishra and project

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scientist mark panning they'll be

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answering some of your questions about

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insight what they've learned since it

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landed on mars in 2018 and what the

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future of the mission looks like now

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that we know the power will likely run

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out in the next couple months

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we want people to get familiar with the

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insight lander so could you give people

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a quick recap of the mission sure and

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it's um fortunately it's much easier to

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fix things on earth than on mars

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um so uh basically as i was starting to

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say earlier insight's really the first

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mission that's been designed to look

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inside of mars uh we've had lots of

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missions that have looked at the surface

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in the atmosphere but insight's really

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designed to see what's happening in the

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deep interior all the way down to its

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core and the main tool we use for that

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is looking at mars quakes which are

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recorded with a seismometer if you look

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to the right this is a model of the the

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seismometer and we'll we'll talk more

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about that in a bit uh but that's

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actually what's used to measure mars

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quakes

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and we've measured over 1300 of them

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through the mission and we've used those

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to look at the interior we also have a a

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couple other key instruments that are

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using other ways of looking inside

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by attempting to measure heat flow or by

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using radio science to measure really

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small wobbles of the planet

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great thank you mark and if you're just

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tuning in again we are answering some

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questions about the mars insight lander

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if you have a question use the ask nasa

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hashtag or drop in the comments below

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and we'll be getting to them in a bit

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but now to kind of describe the in situ

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instrument laboratory i'd like to have

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prenay come over here and do

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we'll explain that little dance you have

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to do with the instruments before but

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can you explain why this type of room is

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important for mars missions absolutely

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so the activities we complete on mars

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with both our landers and our rovers are

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very complex and we want to give them

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the best chance of success so in a

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facility like this with a test bed like

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this we actually test all the complex

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activities that we're going to perform

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on mars in here first we'll write a

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sequence we'll test it out here in this

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facility we'll see what went right what

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went wrong make some tweaks and

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eventually when it goes right in here

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we'll send it to mars so that it

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executes successfully there and i had a

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question about kind of everything we're

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stepping on this gravel like why does

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this have to be here for the uh

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sure so what this actually is if you

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take a look most people might think

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they're just some rocks you find outside

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but this is actually crushed unprocessed

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garnet and when you think of garnet you

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think of jewelry but this is the version

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before it turns into that so if you

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actually pick some pieces out and hold

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them into the light you can see little

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glints of red for the jewelry that they

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could one day become in here we use them

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as our practice deployment surface for

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insights so we have tiny rock polisher

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that's right that's right just a little

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bit of jewelry here and then uh also why

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are you both clipped into the foresight

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right now so foresight and most test

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beds have very sensitive electronics

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both to temperature and things like

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electrostatic discharge and so to ensure

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that myself or mark or anyone who's

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close to these electronics doesn't cause

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any accidental electrostatic discharge

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we use these things called grounding

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straps connect to a ground wire here to

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ensure that there's no chance that we

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can danger these electronics same for

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the ac that was mentioned earlier

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these electronics are sensitive to

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temperature we don't want it to get too

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hot in here otherwise that might damage

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it so we have this very loud ac going to

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ensure that it stays cool in this room

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all right so if you see them do a little

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dance that's why they're keeping the uh

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the foresight safe and speaking of

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foresight can you kind of go through

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some of the parts that we see here sure

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so if we start from a far view what we

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have here is foresight's deck it's the

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same size as insights deck and as you

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mentioned before we just don't have

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solar panels on it

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see in photos is our

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instrument deployment arm the idea

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so this arm is what was used to deploy

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all our deployables onto the surface of

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mars there are two cameras on insight

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and so we have two cameras here on

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foresight the first one is the idc

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the instrument deployment camera and

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that's that red box attached to the arm

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and then we have a second camera we'll

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have to swing around a little bit but we

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have a second camera there's a red box

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to my right that is our instrument

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context camera or icc so when you see

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fixed landscape images come back from

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insight that's from the icc and anytime

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you see images of the deck or close-ups

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of the instruments that's coming from

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our idc speaking of instruments mark had

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already mentioned the seismometer to my

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right which is this orange hexagon here

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in our photos what you typically see is

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this white dome called the wind and

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thermal shield abbreviated to wts this

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is placed on top of the seismometer to

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ensure we don't have any noise or less

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noise in our data taken from the

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seismometer and here

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we have a model of the hp3 which is our

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the mole the penetrator uh and so these

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are the three items that we practice

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deploying in this testbed and what has

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kind of been some of the most

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significant and important tests you've

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done since insight landed the most

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important test we did was practicing

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these deployments before we landed we

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weren't sure what the terrain would look

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like we could have a tilt

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we could have rocks in our workspace so

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in this room we would add rocks to our

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field we would set up boards with

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different tilts up to 15 degrees and

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these items would be up here on the deck

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and we would use the robotic arm and

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practice lifting them and putting them

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onto the surface we wanted to make sure

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we had good accuracy and good precision

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so when the scientists told us where

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they wanted these on the surface we

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could get them there all right and

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speaking of scientists

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mark i have some questions for you

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what have scientists learned from

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insight yeah so um

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as i said our our main mission goals

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were to look at the interior mars in

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particular we wanted to know more about

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its crust which is the rocky layer on

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the outside it's mantle which is the

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rocky layer below it and its core which

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is the metallic layer in the middle and

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uh by looking at all of those mars

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quakes we've talked about so there's

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over 1300 of them recorded we can look

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insight go through the inside of mars

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and use that to figure out what's

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happening on the inside of mars so we

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can now tell how thick the crust is um

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it's not as thick as some models

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suggested before but it's uh

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it makes a lot of sense we can now tell

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how big the core is it's actually ended

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up being on the big end of our

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expectations which is actually going to

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be very interesting moving forward and

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trying to understand the science of how

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mars formed and evolved if it's big it's

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also less dense and that tells you stuff

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about the kinds of stuff inside the

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we're also really interested in how

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active mars is all those mars quakes we

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recorded we need to know why they're

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happening and where they're happening

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and some of the most interesting stuff

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is that many of those quakes happen in

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an area we call cerberus fosse which

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geologically speaking is very young in

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terms of volcanoes now when i say

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geologically young it's

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less than 10 million years old

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but we we know has steep sides on its

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features that have rock falls that go

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down them and we suspected going into

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the mission that we would see marsquakes

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there and it turns out we did see mars

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quakes there um and also many marsquakes

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uh all around the the planet so there's

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there's been a lot of uh really

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interesting science to come out and a

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lot of science to come yeah speaking of

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science to come will you be able to use

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the data that you have received and

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continue to receive in the future

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absolutely so um i i like to reference

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back to the apollo missions so they

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landed seismometers on the moon that

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operated after the astronauts left and

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they kept operating until 1977

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um but then they got turned off in 1977

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but people are still making studies on

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there's every reason to think people are

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still going to be studying mars quakes

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from insight

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with a slight delay but most of the most

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of the data for the mission you can just

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download from the sites that

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seismologists work from whether you're

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lots of science years ahead and i do

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access it as well and we are getting

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some viewer questions in so if you're

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asknasa or drop them in the comments

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below and first off for mark we have

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roshana who asks will there be a future

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mission that will follow up in the

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discoveries made by the insight lander

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the short answer is i don't know

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those decisions are are made by nasa

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and so i have ideas for some great

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things we could do it would be great to

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have a mission someday that went to

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servers fosa and looked at mars quakes

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um and there are uh i have certainly

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going to be

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um

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people that are proposing missions to go

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back to mars but

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uh we can't predict exactly what's going

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to happen

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and i have another question coming in

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from cynical led

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they i think this is going to be for

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prenate what happens if the solar arrays

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are cleaned off by wind will you bring

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the mission out of retirement

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so i can't speak to the last part of the

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question about bringing it out of

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retirement that's a very broad question

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if we could be able to do that but

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if there was a cleaning event on the

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solar panels we would expect to have

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more power in our batteries and insight

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would be able to operate for a longer

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amount of time when that happens and if

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that happens unfortunately it's not up

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to us

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okay i would i would like to follow up

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on that real quick so one thing we do

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know about how the spacecraft is

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designed is that

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at some point it won't deliver enough

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energy to keep the batteries charged up

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and we'll stop communicating with it we

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expect that to happen sometime this year

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but

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if in the future the solar panels were

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were cleaned off it's the spacecraft

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design that it would then start charging

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up the batteries

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and it would

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start to try to communicate with earth

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and there's a chance that we could hear

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it again and bring it back it's

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possible it's designed to be able to do

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that but once again that's depends on

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what mars does and so we can't predict

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what's going to happen but the

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spacecraft is designed to be able to

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recover from its battery being drained

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that's a nice hopeful answer so uh we

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have some people commenting on what they

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see behind us and how foresight is kind

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of on these blocks

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could you kind of explain why that is

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sure so

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as most people know insight is a lander

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so it does not have any wheels and it

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doesn't move so one of the things we

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like to test in this room using

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foresight is besides the deployments is

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when the hp3 mole anomaly occurred we

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wanted to ensure that we could test

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every possible solution in the space

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what we actually did was we had brought

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in the flight spare for our mole brought

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it to this room here connected it to

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foresight and we set up a box in this

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space

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to give

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time and depth for the mole to actually

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penetrate if we needed to during our

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testing so we needed space downward for

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the mole to penetrate so we actually had

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to raise the lander up using these

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cinder blocks to ensure that the height

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between the deck

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the robotic arm and the mole in our

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testing area was the same as on mars to

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ensure that we were actually testing in

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a flight-like way

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it's fun to see like all these little

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parts and how they have one specific use

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in here that's right this is our play

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sandbox this is the best part about this

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job

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and we have some more questions coming

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in about the signs again if you'd like

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to ask a question about insight use the

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ask nasa

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or

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drop them in the comments below and they

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are patiently doing their dances they

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try to

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make sure that they are connected to the

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spacecraft uh dan shields asks will

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there be seismic instruments in the

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upcoming venus missions upcoming venus

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mission so at this point the the venus

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missions that have been selected none of

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them are going to the surface

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so there wouldn't be any seismic

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instruments on those um there have been

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proposals for uh possible ways of doing

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seismology on venus from orbit

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but it would be very different than what

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we're doing on insight um so if there is

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possibility in the future but in the

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currently

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selected missions uh there's no plan for

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seismology and you know someone was just

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asking again what what is this what are

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these little bracelets that you're

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wearing sure so

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uh we have a lot of sensitive

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electronics in our test bed area and

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they are sensitive to things like

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temperature and the other thing is

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electrostatic discharge esd so if you

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ever touch a doorknob a metal doorknob

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and get a little static shock that's

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what we're trying to prevent here we

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don't want any of those shocks to go

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into our electronics and cause any

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damage what these wrist straps do is

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they ground ourselves

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through the spacecraft to our facility

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ground so they make sure that if we have

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any charge it passes through safely and

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doesn't actually affect our electronics

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and we can't cause any damage we wear

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these when we are close to the

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electronics if you're a certain distance

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away then you don't need to wear one

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great and then we have a couple science

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questions coming in now derek ward asked

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what is the core made of and does the

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core have a

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solid core or is it all liquid

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that's a really good question and the

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short answer is we don't know all of

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those answers yet but what i will say

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is that the core is metallic its main

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main constituents are like the earth

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iron and nickel

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but its density is low enough that it

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has other things in it we don't know

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exactly what all of the other things are

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a lot of it is probably sulfur

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but there are other things carbon

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hydrogen other lighter elements that

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could be in there to make it be less

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dense and we're still trying to work out

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what all of those could be in terms of

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whether it's liquid or solid we can say

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with a high level of certainty that at

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the top of the core it's liquid uh we

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know that for sure um

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because the seismic energy we see

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reflects very strongly and also the

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radio science tells us that the motions

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of the planet are consistent with a

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liquid core

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at the the where the core

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and the rocky mantle come together

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we can't say for certain whether it has

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a solid inner core like the earth does

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we don't have any evidence to say one

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way or the other but i will say

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under the pressure and temperature

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conditions of mars

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it's likely that it's all liquid but we

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don't know that for sure

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more answers to come and then war hero

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asks how long was the mission designed

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to last and did the mission meet

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everyone's expectations when it comes to

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the science that came from it absolutely

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so our prime mission was schedule was

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scheduled to last

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about one mars year two earth years

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approximately um and we uh designed the

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solar panels such that we wouldn't be

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sure to have enough energy to get

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through that and we did we had plenty of

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energy to get through the prime mission

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in fact we got another extended mission

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that we're in right now that extended it

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another two years

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um uh we recorded

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a whole lot of events we've answered all

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of our science goals uh and so we

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actually got to looking at the interior

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of mars and we're actually extremely

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happy with the amount of science we've

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been able to achieve and there's still

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more happening uh i

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didn't mention it but we actually had

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the biggest event of the mission just

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about a month and a half ago um and uh

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and there are so many studies that are

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underway looking at all of the new data

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we can get with such a big event and

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when i say big event it was magnitude

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4.7 which on earth isn't that big but on

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mars was far bigger than anything else

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we'd seen

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and i just want you to know that you

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have a fan watching right now your

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so you're doing great here and uh

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i'd also like to know uh

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why has the seismometer gone on longer

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than previously planned um

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more phrasing i think is they want to

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know is could using this seismometer

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cause it to accidentally shut down

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unexpectedly by continuing to use it so

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um i will say

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we had a time period this is very

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interesting stuff happened uh back

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about uh

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late last summer in 2021 we were

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entering the time of the mars season

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called aphelion when it's farthest from

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the sun and at that point

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we're farthest from the sun so we got

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the lowest amount of solar energy and we

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were at our coldest temperatures and we

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were very concerned that we weren't

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going to be able to continue operating

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instruments through that time

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the engineers including here in the test

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bed and mult multiple places came up

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with lots of great plans uh to try to

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get a little more energy out and they

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dumped actual rocks on top of the deck

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that then blew across the solar panels

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and cleaned them off a little bit and

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kept us going for longer than we

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expected

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and that's

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an amazing thing and i have all sorts of

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compliments for the engineers for for

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for making that work

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but right now we are not no longer

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running the seismometer continuously

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we're running it about half of the time

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um we are carefully monitoring energy so

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it's not at this point going to make the

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the spacecraft stop operating

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but at some point we're going to get to

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a point where we may not be able

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to keep doing that but the engineers are

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keeping close eye on all of that

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yeah yeah thanks to prenatal there's a

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large operations team that that mark was

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mentioning that every day models energy

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looks at the data that's coming back

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plans how to use the instruments so that

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we have enough power so there's a huge

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team behind all the success for insight

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absolutely and we were getting some

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questions kind of just about the room in

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general so this has been used like

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historically not just for insight there

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have been many other missions and kind

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of what you see behind there is from a

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previous rover mission and there's all

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these uh different parts here could you

551
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kind of get into that too sure so one of

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the first missions tested here are the

553
00:19:30,390 --> 00:19:28,720
spirit and opportunity rovers so

554
00:19:32,710 --> 00:19:30,400
actually at that time there was a whole

555
00:19:34,630 --> 00:19:32,720
different surface in here

556
00:19:37,430 --> 00:19:34,640
but this building was built to test

557
00:19:39,510 --> 00:19:37,440
those two rovers after they had left

558
00:19:41,270 --> 00:19:39,520
curiosity for some aspects were tested

559
00:19:43,990 --> 00:19:41,280
in here their test bed was here just

560
00:19:45,669 --> 00:19:44,000
recently perseverance landed on mars and

561
00:19:48,390 --> 00:19:45,679
so they're tested they're our neighbor

562
00:19:50,390 --> 00:19:48,400
so we play together in the sandbox area

563
00:19:52,870 --> 00:19:50,400
going forward new missions will use this

564
00:19:55,110 --> 00:19:52,880
building so this was created as a test

565
00:19:57,190 --> 00:19:55,120
environment and as a universal test

566
00:19:58,630 --> 00:19:57,200
environment so we can reshape it every

567
00:20:00,070 --> 00:19:58,640
time we have a new mission that needs

568
00:20:01,990 --> 00:20:00,080
space one of the things you were

569
00:20:04,789 --> 00:20:02,000
mentioning behind me the black and white

570
00:20:06,549 --> 00:20:04,799
dots are a cal target so for some of our

571
00:20:07,909 --> 00:20:06,559
rover missions that were in here they

572
00:20:09,990 --> 00:20:07,919
were testing some of their cameras and

573
00:20:12,310 --> 00:20:10,000
doing some calibration they used that

574
00:20:14,549 --> 00:20:12,320
target to test out their cameras and

575
00:20:16,470 --> 00:20:14,559
you've also mentioned too these other

576
00:20:17,909 --> 00:20:16,480
cameras around here what are the four

577
00:20:20,470 --> 00:20:17,919
cameras

578
00:20:22,470 --> 00:20:20,480
all around us are they for insight yeah

579
00:20:24,390 --> 00:20:22,480
so we have these four and they look

580
00:20:26,470 --> 00:20:24,400
little black and silver cameras going

581
00:20:28,870 --> 00:20:26,480
all around the insight test bed those

582
00:20:30,549 --> 00:20:28,880
are called vicon motion capture cameras

583
00:20:32,390 --> 00:20:30,559
so they're commonly used in hollywood

584
00:20:34,549 --> 00:20:32,400
and video game design

585
00:20:36,470 --> 00:20:34,559
and they do precision motion tracking

586
00:20:38,630 --> 00:20:36,480
what we use them for is after we

587
00:20:41,750 --> 00:20:38,640
practice each deployment we actually put

588
00:20:44,630 --> 00:20:41,760
a tracking dot from these cameras on the

589
00:20:46,630 --> 00:20:44,640
sites or the hp3 or the wts to see where

590
00:20:48,390 --> 00:20:46,640
we placed it and did we hit our target

591
00:20:50,549 --> 00:20:48,400
we wanted to practice our accuracy and

592
00:20:52,070 --> 00:20:50,559
precision and so using those cameras we

593
00:20:53,830 --> 00:20:52,080
were able to tell how close we got to

594
00:20:54,789 --> 00:20:53,840
our target spot and make tweaks as

595
00:20:56,070 --> 00:20:54,799
needed

596
00:20:58,070 --> 00:20:56,080
great and

597
00:21:00,789 --> 00:20:58,080
if anyone's watching they

598
00:21:02,470 --> 00:21:00,799
have a great insight on the inside

599
00:21:04,950 --> 00:21:02,480
lander and so you have any questions

600
00:21:07,270 --> 00:21:04,960
you'd like to ask use the ask nasa

601
00:21:09,990 --> 00:21:07,280
or leave your comments in the comment

602
00:21:13,510 --> 00:21:10,000
box below and questions as well so we

603
00:21:16,710 --> 00:21:13,520
have a couple other questions coming in

604
00:21:18,310 --> 00:21:16,720
uh let's see here

605
00:21:20,470 --> 00:21:18,320
um

606
00:21:23,029 --> 00:21:20,480
what oh we have some personal questions

607
00:21:25,029 --> 00:21:23,039
coming in what inspired both of you in

608
00:21:26,710 --> 00:21:25,039
your careers and what led you

609
00:21:29,590 --> 00:21:26,720
to nasa

610
00:21:32,390 --> 00:21:29,600
and sure so a couple things for me but

611
00:21:33,909 --> 00:21:32,400
one my cousin is an astrophysicist uh

612
00:21:36,149 --> 00:21:33,919
and so when i was young he would talk

613
00:21:38,149 --> 00:21:36,159
about the stars talk about space show me

614
00:21:39,669 --> 00:21:38,159
things through a telescope and when i

615
00:21:41,110 --> 00:21:39,679
would see those things he would study

616
00:21:42,470 --> 00:21:41,120
them behind the telescope and my first

617
00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:42,480
thought was why don't we go there and

618
00:21:46,870 --> 00:21:44,480
look at it and then that really sparked

619
00:21:48,789 --> 00:21:46,880
my interest in space exploration and

620
00:21:51,590 --> 00:21:48,799
since then i just wanted to be part of

621
00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:51,600
an organization which nasa is that helps

622
00:21:56,070 --> 00:21:53,280
go out into space and create new

623
00:21:58,310 --> 00:21:56,080
discoveries what about you mark yeah

624
00:22:01,669 --> 00:21:58,320
i'd say uh i got involved in this

625
00:22:03,350 --> 00:22:01,679
through a series of happy accidents um i

626
00:22:05,909 --> 00:22:03,360
don't think at any point in my life i

627
00:22:08,310 --> 00:22:05,919
planned on working for nasa it was never

628
00:22:10,630 --> 00:22:08,320
uh never the plan i

629
00:22:12,549 --> 00:22:10,640
ended up in college becoming a geology

630
00:22:14,630 --> 00:22:12,559
major because there was a class that let

631
00:22:17,430 --> 00:22:14,640
me go hiking in montana

632
00:22:19,510 --> 00:22:17,440
uh and and then i took more classes i

633
00:22:21,830 --> 00:22:19,520
was good at math so i started studying

634
00:22:23,029 --> 00:22:21,840
seismology which is geology plus math

635
00:22:23,909 --> 00:22:23,039
more or less

636
00:22:28,149 --> 00:22:23,919
um

637
00:22:29,510 --> 00:22:28,159
but i for uh grad school i focused on

638
00:22:30,950 --> 00:22:29,520
the earth

639
00:22:33,270 --> 00:22:30,960
but uh

640
00:22:37,350 --> 00:22:33,280
in order to stay in berkeley where i did

641
00:22:38,789 --> 00:22:37,360
my studies i got a project that involved

642
00:22:40,950 --> 00:22:38,799
thinking about what seismology would

643
00:22:43,590 --> 00:22:40,960
look like on europa which is a moon of

644
00:22:45,750 --> 00:22:43,600
jupiter um it was just somebody had a

645
00:22:47,909 --> 00:22:45,760
project i was like that sounds like fun

646
00:22:50,390 --> 00:22:47,919
and uh since then i've just been

647
00:22:53,750 --> 00:22:50,400
following opportunities like that um and

648
00:22:55,750 --> 00:22:53,760
some where along the line um uh the the

649
00:22:57,590 --> 00:22:55,760
lead of the mission uh principal

650
00:22:59,590 --> 00:22:57,600
investigator bruce banner uh talked to

651
00:23:01,430 --> 00:22:59,600
me and said we're thinking about doing

652
00:23:04,390 --> 00:23:01,440
seismology on mars would you like to be

653
00:23:07,590 --> 00:23:04,400
involved and i said yes with a big smile

654
00:23:10,310 --> 00:23:07,600
on my face and um now

655
00:23:12,149 --> 00:23:10,320
14 15 years later i'm still working on

656
00:23:14,149 --> 00:23:12,159
that project

657
00:23:15,590 --> 00:23:14,159
that's great and we have some questions

658
00:23:17,430 --> 00:23:15,600
coming in for you mark which we'll get

659
00:23:19,990 --> 00:23:17,440
to in a second but a lot of people are

660
00:23:23,990 --> 00:23:20,000
curious about the panels the solar

661
00:23:26,070 --> 00:23:24,000
panels can they be cleaned off on mars

662
00:23:28,710 --> 00:23:26,080
so insight itself does not have the

663
00:23:30,230 --> 00:23:28,720
capability of cleaning its solar panels

664
00:23:32,230 --> 00:23:30,240
if they do get cleaned it would be

665
00:23:34,230 --> 00:23:32,240
hopefully through one of the wind

666
00:23:36,230 --> 00:23:34,240
cleaning events that marx mentioned one

667
00:23:37,909 --> 00:23:36,240
of the questions that does get asked is

668
00:23:39,909 --> 00:23:37,919
why don't we have a way to clean our

669
00:23:42,310 --> 00:23:39,919
solar panels so

670
00:23:44,230 --> 00:23:42,320
the goal of insight is to collect the

671
00:23:45,510 --> 00:23:44,240
science data and meet answer the science

672
00:23:47,830 --> 00:23:45,520
questions that mark's discussed which

673
00:23:49,909 --> 00:23:47,840
we've done extremely well

674
00:23:51,990 --> 00:23:49,919
anytime you want to add more engineering

675
00:23:54,390 --> 00:23:52,000
complexities such as a way to clean

676
00:23:56,390 --> 00:23:54,400
solar panels we've incurred now we'll

677
00:23:57,990 --> 00:23:56,400
have new actuators new mechanisms we'll

678
00:23:59,590 --> 00:23:58,000
have to have a way to test it we'll have

679
00:24:00,950 --> 00:23:59,600
to have a way to make sure that it works

680
00:24:03,909 --> 00:24:00,960
we have to have a way to ensure that

681
00:24:05,909 --> 00:24:03,919
those items can't actually harm any of

682
00:24:08,070 --> 00:24:05,919
our science collection so our first

683
00:24:10,070 --> 00:24:08,080
priority is to ensure that anything we

684
00:24:11,430 --> 00:24:10,080
do we'll answer the science questions

685
00:24:13,190 --> 00:24:11,440
and make sure we bring our science data

686
00:24:14,630 --> 00:24:13,200
back and as mark mentioned the solar

687
00:24:16,070 --> 00:24:14,640
panels were sized so that they could

688
00:24:17,510 --> 00:24:16,080
meet the prime mission without requiring

689
00:24:19,269 --> 00:24:17,520
any cleaning

690
00:24:21,110 --> 00:24:19,279
and we're going to head back to the

691
00:24:23,350 --> 00:24:21,120
science questions we'll do our little

692
00:24:26,390 --> 00:24:23,360
dance with

693
00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:28,070
at this point

694
00:24:32,710 --> 00:24:30,480
it's fun to see so a few science

695
00:24:39,190 --> 00:24:32,720
questions coming in here has the lander

696
00:24:43,510 --> 00:24:41,110
on the scale of what people would think

697
00:24:45,510 --> 00:24:43,520
about as moving the answer is no

698
00:24:47,750 --> 00:24:45,520
it's been very stable

699
00:24:49,430 --> 00:24:47,760
people hear about big wind storms on

700
00:24:51,830 --> 00:24:49,440
mars and they do have very high

701
00:24:54,149 --> 00:24:51,840
velocities but the atmosphere is very

702
00:24:57,350 --> 00:24:54,159
very thin on mars

703
00:24:59,990 --> 00:24:57,360
it's about half a percent as dense as

704
00:25:01,669 --> 00:25:00,000
our atmosphere and so even when you have

705
00:25:03,750 --> 00:25:01,679
very strong winds it actually doesn't

706
00:25:06,390 --> 00:25:03,760
have that much force if you've seen the

707
00:25:07,990 --> 00:25:06,400
martian the beginning scene

708
00:25:10,230 --> 00:25:08,000
wouldn't happen on mars you wouldn't

709
00:25:12,630 --> 00:25:10,240
have enough energy to knock antennas

710
00:25:14,390 --> 00:25:12,640
over and do all of those things so

711
00:25:17,990 --> 00:25:14,400
hasn't moved

712
00:25:19,190 --> 00:25:18,000
on a large scale but um it does move on

713
00:25:21,430 --> 00:25:19,200
the very small scales that the

714
00:25:23,909 --> 00:25:21,440
seismometer can measure um as a matter

715
00:25:25,990 --> 00:25:23,919
of fact before we put ourselves down on

716
00:25:27,269 --> 00:25:26,000
the surface we were able to turn on one

717
00:25:29,590 --> 00:25:27,279
of the seismometers while it was still

718
00:25:31,830 --> 00:25:29,600
on the deck and we measured how much the

719
00:25:34,230 --> 00:25:31,840
lander moved in the wind and it actually

720
00:25:36,149 --> 00:25:34,240
moved in a measurable way back and forth

721
00:25:38,950 --> 00:25:36,159
very similar to how the viking landers

722
00:25:40,549 --> 00:25:38,960
moved which had seismometers on them but

723
00:25:42,070 --> 00:25:40,559
never got deployed down to the surface

724
00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:42,080
so they never saw mars quakes they just

725
00:25:46,230 --> 00:25:44,720
saw how the lander moved so

726
00:25:47,750 --> 00:25:46,240
that's all about how sensitive the

727
00:25:49,830 --> 00:25:47,760
seismometer is it can measure motions

728
00:25:52,870 --> 00:25:49,840
that are about the size of a hydrogen

729
00:25:55,909 --> 00:25:52,880
atom so very small motions can be seen

730
00:25:58,149 --> 00:25:55,919
but not to the point that you'd actually

731
00:26:00,149 --> 00:25:58,159
physically see the lander moving

732
00:26:02,549 --> 00:26:00,159
yeah that's quite the visual though to

733
00:26:04,549 --> 00:26:02,559
picture an atom moving and the next

734
00:26:06,789 --> 00:26:04,559
question is about temperature how hot

735
00:26:09,430 --> 00:26:06,799
are the temperatures during the day on

736
00:26:12,310 --> 00:26:09,440
mars and how cold does it get at night

737
00:26:14,310 --> 00:26:12,320
i i'm so um

738
00:26:17,190 --> 00:26:14,320
i don't want to answer that incorrectly

739
00:26:20,549 --> 00:26:17,200
okay so i it does get very cold i will

740
00:26:23,190 --> 00:26:20,559
say that we uh on in the warm

741
00:26:25,190 --> 00:26:23,200
electronics box on the inside of of

742
00:26:26,789 --> 00:26:25,200
insight which is inside there where you

743
00:26:27,990 --> 00:26:26,799
can't see it

744
00:26:29,669 --> 00:26:28,000
it's

745
00:26:31,830 --> 00:26:29,679
over time we've let it get colder than

746
00:26:34,390 --> 00:26:31,840
we initially designed for but now it

747
00:26:38,630 --> 00:26:34,400
gets down to temperatures of

748
00:26:40,549 --> 00:26:38,640
minus 35 celsius minus 38 celsius

749
00:26:42,390 --> 00:26:40,559
the surface gets much colder than that

750
00:26:43,909 --> 00:26:42,400
but i don't know the exact number so i

751
00:26:46,149 --> 00:26:43,919
don't want to say an incorrect number

752
00:26:48,870 --> 00:26:46,159
but it does get it does get quite chilly

753
00:26:50,789 --> 00:26:48,880
and during the day um it still is

754
00:26:53,430 --> 00:26:50,799
generally below zero degrees celsius so

755
00:26:55,990 --> 00:26:53,440
even on the balmiest summer days

756
00:26:58,549 --> 00:26:56,000
it's still very cold on mars no problem

757
00:27:01,190 --> 00:26:58,559
we can get you an answer in celsius and

758
00:27:04,549 --> 00:27:01,200
degrees at a later time but thanks that

759
00:27:07,909 --> 00:27:04,559
was a great question and then a question

760
00:27:08,710 --> 00:27:07,919
for both of you from sin city jim he

761
00:27:10,950 --> 00:27:08,720
says

762
00:27:14,149 --> 00:27:10,960
i know they're just machines but i get

763
00:27:15,590 --> 00:27:14,159
kind of sad when they come to an end

764
00:27:18,149 --> 00:27:15,600
it's almost like the death of a good

765
00:27:19,909 --> 00:27:18,159
friend do either of you feel that way

766
00:27:21,669 --> 00:27:19,919
when you think of a mission coming to an

767
00:27:23,909 --> 00:27:21,679
end i don't know who'd like to go first

768
00:27:25,909 --> 00:27:23,919
uh i absolutely feel that way insight

769
00:27:28,310 --> 00:27:25,919
was the first flight project i got to

770
00:27:32,230 --> 00:27:28,320
work on when i joined jpl i've been on

771
00:27:34,470 --> 00:27:32,240
it now for five and a half years uh

772
00:27:35,990 --> 00:27:34,480
i feel like insight's my friend uh i

773
00:27:38,070 --> 00:27:36,000
feel like every time insight makes a

774
00:27:39,750 --> 00:27:38,080
discovery or something amazing happens

775
00:27:41,750 --> 00:27:39,760
with insight i get excited the whole

776
00:27:44,070 --> 00:27:41,760
team gets excited uh whenever the

777
00:27:45,750 --> 00:27:44,080
mission does end i will be extremely sad

778
00:27:47,269 --> 00:27:45,760
but feel very fortunate and lucky to

779
00:27:48,549 --> 00:27:47,279
have worked on it

780
00:27:50,630 --> 00:27:48,559
yeah

781
00:27:52,230 --> 00:27:50,640
as i said in an answer to an earlier

782
00:27:55,750 --> 00:27:52,240
question i think i've been working on

783
00:27:58,149 --> 00:27:55,760
insight at for around 15 years now

784
00:27:59,750 --> 00:27:58,159
so this is a big part of my life

785
00:28:01,830 --> 00:27:59,760
it's been

786
00:28:03,990 --> 00:28:01,840
obviously something i'll always think

787
00:28:06,230 --> 00:28:04,000
about we had an earlier video where i

788
00:28:09,029 --> 00:28:06,240
showed my arm i don't know if i could do

789
00:28:12,789 --> 00:28:09,039
that here but there you go there's the

790
00:28:14,549 --> 00:28:12,799
the insight logo um so uh i will say

791
00:28:15,990 --> 00:28:14,559
that insights left a permanent mark on

792
00:28:16,710 --> 00:28:16,000
me

793
00:28:18,710 --> 00:28:16,720
and

794
00:28:20,710 --> 00:28:18,720
obviously when it ends it will be very

795
00:28:22,630 --> 00:28:20,720
sad but

796
00:28:24,630 --> 00:28:22,640
all things

797
00:28:25,990 --> 00:28:24,640
must pass as george harrison would say i

798
00:28:27,750 --> 00:28:26,000
guess

799
00:28:33,750 --> 00:28:27,760
i think a nice way to conclude it is

800
00:28:37,430 --> 00:28:35,909
that is a tough question to answer

801
00:28:39,590 --> 00:28:37,440
there's been a lot of

802
00:28:41,110 --> 00:28:39,600
good memories i think for me i spent

803
00:28:43,029 --> 00:28:41,120
most of my time working on insight in

804
00:28:45,750 --> 00:28:43,039
this room and as i mentioned we

805
00:28:47,990 --> 00:28:45,760
practiced all our deployments in here so

806
00:28:50,789 --> 00:28:48,000
i think really every time we got the

807
00:28:52,230 --> 00:28:50,799
seismometer to touch down we got the wts

808
00:28:54,230 --> 00:28:52,240
the wind and thermoshield on top of the

809
00:28:56,630 --> 00:28:54,240
seismometer we got the hp3 down each

810
00:28:58,389 --> 00:28:56,640
time those three events happened i felt

811
00:29:00,789 --> 00:28:58,399
elated it was just amazing that the

812
00:29:03,350 --> 00:29:00,799
things we tested in here so precisely we

813
00:29:04,310 --> 00:29:03,360
were able to do on mars successfully

814
00:29:06,310 --> 00:29:04,320
yeah i

815
00:29:09,430 --> 00:29:06,320
there's a million and so i i have a

816
00:29:12,950 --> 00:29:09,440
heart i i'll say probably the most

817
00:29:15,909 --> 00:29:12,960
overall intense experience so i

818
00:29:18,070 --> 00:29:15,919
started at jpl in 2017 just the year

819
00:29:20,230 --> 00:29:18,080
before we actually landed and then once

820
00:29:22,310 --> 00:29:20,240
we actually landed we

821
00:29:24,389 --> 00:29:22,320
for the next two and a half months while

822
00:29:25,510 --> 00:29:24,399
we were doing the deployment process it

823
00:29:28,070 --> 00:29:25,520
was

824
00:29:29,590 --> 00:29:28,080
all the time in sight we had meetings

825
00:29:31,269 --> 00:29:29,600
constantly and we were just talking

826
00:29:33,510 --> 00:29:31,279
through everything and it was just a

827
00:29:35,350 --> 00:29:33,520
very intense experience um in fact for

828
00:29:36,789 --> 00:29:35,360
the first week we were on mars time and

829
00:29:37,669 --> 00:29:36,799
i had to come in in the middle of the

830
00:29:38,470 --> 00:29:37,679
night

831
00:29:41,430 --> 00:29:38,480
and

832
00:29:43,669 --> 00:29:41,440
that was yeah that's that was like

833
00:29:45,510 --> 00:29:43,679
nothing else i guess

834
00:29:47,990 --> 00:29:45,520
what is mars time for people who might

835
00:29:49,669 --> 00:29:48,000
not know what that is um so basically

836
00:29:51,669 --> 00:29:49,679
the mars day

837
00:29:54,549 --> 00:29:51,679
is a little bit longer than the earth

838
00:29:55,990 --> 00:29:54,559
day um and

839
00:29:58,630 --> 00:29:56,000
when you're working and you're trying to

840
00:30:00,789 --> 00:29:58,640
do things on a quick pace you want to

841
00:30:03,669 --> 00:30:00,799
line up your work schedule to when we

842
00:30:04,470 --> 00:30:03,679
can communicate with the lander um and

843
00:30:06,789 --> 00:30:04,480
so

844
00:30:10,070 --> 00:30:06,799
that timing depends on time of day on

845
00:30:12,549 --> 00:30:10,080
mars not time of day on earth and so for

846
00:30:15,269 --> 00:30:12,559
the first week or so we

847
00:30:17,269 --> 00:30:15,279
timed our working shifts to be matching

848
00:30:19,029 --> 00:30:17,279
up with the uplink and downlink times on

849
00:30:21,029 --> 00:30:19,039
mars and that was shift a little bit

850
00:30:22,710 --> 00:30:21,039
each day about 40 minutes

851
00:30:24,470 --> 00:30:22,720
and it happened to be at that time of

852
00:30:26,549 --> 00:30:24,480
year it was kind of in the middle of the

853
00:30:27,669 --> 00:30:26,559
night so i got to see jpl in the middle

854
00:30:29,190 --> 00:30:27,679
of the night and there are crazy

855
00:30:30,310 --> 00:30:29,200
raccoons on lap in the middle of the

856
00:30:31,750 --> 00:30:30,320
night

857
00:30:33,909 --> 00:30:31,760
i don't think people know about all the

858
00:30:35,269 --> 00:30:33,919
critters that kind of move around here

859
00:30:36,870 --> 00:30:35,279
is there anything

860
00:30:37,909 --> 00:30:36,880
you'd like to say to your fellow team

861
00:30:39,830 --> 00:30:37,919
members

862
00:30:41,590 --> 00:30:39,840
as well um

863
00:30:43,110 --> 00:30:41,600
i just you know i really want to

864
00:30:46,549 --> 00:30:43,120
emphasize that

865
00:30:48,389 --> 00:30:46,559
this is a huge team effort um

866
00:30:50,470 --> 00:30:48,399
there are hundreds of people that have

867
00:30:52,310 --> 00:30:50,480
been involved in this and i cannot list

868
00:30:53,909 --> 00:30:52,320
them all we have

869
00:30:55,669 --> 00:30:53,919
hundreds of people on the science team

870
00:30:57,430 --> 00:30:55,679
that i'm dealing with directly we have

871
00:30:59,669 --> 00:30:57,440
hundreds of people on the operations

872
00:31:01,590 --> 00:30:59,679
team we have all of the people working

873
00:31:03,269 --> 00:31:01,600
here at the test bed and

874
00:31:05,350 --> 00:31:03,279
all of them were essential to make this

875
00:31:07,110 --> 00:31:05,360
happen there's no way we could do this

876
00:31:07,909 --> 00:31:07,120
without everybody working together and

877
00:31:10,710 --> 00:31:07,919
so

878
00:31:12,710 --> 00:31:10,720
everything that happens is

879
00:31:15,029 --> 00:31:12,720
just such a team effort and you know

880
00:31:17,350 --> 00:31:15,039
it's it's hard to imagine how much it

881
00:31:19,190 --> 00:31:17,360
depends on all of these different people

882
00:31:21,350 --> 00:31:19,200
yeah i want to just echo mark's comments

883
00:31:24,149 --> 00:31:21,360
there's a massive team of engineers

884
00:31:26,230 --> 00:31:24,159
scientists and others who made insight

885
00:31:27,509 --> 00:31:26,240
successful and i think the greatest joy

886
00:31:29,750 --> 00:31:27,519
we all have is we all got to work

887
00:31:32,470 --> 00:31:29,760
together on this this amazing mission

888
00:31:34,549 --> 00:31:32,480
and got to do something novel uh with

889
00:31:36,789 --> 00:31:34,559
the work we did yeah and it was nice to

890
00:31:38,789 --> 00:31:36,799
see you mentioned before

891
00:31:40,710 --> 00:31:38,799
visions come to life with the

892
00:31:42,549 --> 00:31:40,720
instruments that you put out together

893
00:31:44,070 --> 00:31:42,559
well that is all the time we have today

894
00:31:46,230 --> 00:31:44,080
thank you for your questions and thanks

895
00:31:47,509 --> 00:31:46,240
to prenate and mark for answering them

896
00:31:50,630 --> 00:31:47,519
and if you want to learn more about

897
00:31:54,310 --> 00:31:50,640
insight visit mars.nasa.gov

898
00:31:56,789 --> 00:31:54,320
insight and follow nasa insight at nasa