The Mars InSight lander is created to study the interior of Mars. Then, on Tuesday, a fourth leak was confirmed. But on Tuesday the team had to make the call, and there simply wasn’t enough time left to identify and fix the problem.
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Months of analysis is expected before they decide on how to proceed. “When you challenge scientists and engineers to do something that’s never been done before, sometimes things don’t work out the way you want”.
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The instrument involved is the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), a seismometer provided by France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES). Since the launch was cancelled, it will be moved from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California back to Lockheed’s facility in Denver. Jim Green, the Director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division stated that, so far, the InSight project has spent $525 million of that total amount.
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Budgetary limits may factor into a pending decision on whether NASA will proceed with the program. The launch delay will automatically trigger an assessment of whether the mission should fly at all.
“The decision was made by the leak”, Grunsfeld said.
The InSight landers SEIS instrument, which was supplied by the French space agency (CNES), measures ground movements, like earthquakes, as small as the diameter of an atom and requires “a vacuum seal around its three main sensors to withstand the harsh conditions of the Martian environment”. The vacuum sphere technology should be more straightforward to fix, Pircher said.
NASA and CNES also are participating in the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Mars Express mission now operating at Mars and plans to participate on ESA’s 2016 and 2018 ExoMars missions, including providing telecommunication radios for ESA’s 2016 orbiter and a critical element of a key astrobiology instrument on the 2018 ExoMars rover. The heat flow instrument is functioning flawlessly.
“InSight’s investigation of the Red Planet’s interior is created to increase understanding of how all rocky planets, including Earth, formed and evolved”, InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt said.
Lima, Peru, December 2015: A team of world-class scientists will grow potatoes under Martian conditions in a bid to save millions of lives. It is created to measure very small amounts of seismic activity on Mars in order to determine the inner structure of the planet.
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“That’s all forward work”, John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said during a teleconference today (Dec. 22), referring to the determination of InSight’s ultimate fate. “I’ve been working toward getting these measurements for the last 25 years”. “I see this as a minor setback”.
