The Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) is a seismometer and the primary scientific instrument on board the InSight Mars lander launched...
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InSight (redirect from Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport)
Mars for 1440 sols (1480 days; 4 years, 19 days). InSight's objectives were to place a seismometer, called Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS)...
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Marsquake (section Candidate natural seismic events)
seismometer called Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) on 19 December 2018 to search for marsquakes and analyze Mars's internal structure. Even if...
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Seismic tomography or seismotomography is a technique for imaging the subsurface of the Earth using seismic waves. The properties of seismic waves are...
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Seismic velocity structure is the distribution and variation of seismic wave speeds within Earth's and other planetary bodies' subsurface. It is reflective...
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of Integer Sequences Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure, a scientific instrument on board the InSight Mars lander...
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) for the seismometer instrument on the international space mission to Mars, InSight (launched 2018) is from this institute. Seismic Experiment for Interior...
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analysis of the seismic waves that pass through Earth, measurements of the gravitational and magnetic fields of Earth, and experiments with crystalline...
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temperature measurements to help understand the seismic data from the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument. The instruments were developed...
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Earthquake (redirect from Seismic activity)
seismic energy release per unit volume. In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event that generates seismic waves...
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Seismology (redirect from Seismic)
of buildings and structures to earthquakesPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Seismic velocity structure – Seismic wave velocity variation...
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Specifically, the experiments, institutions responsible, and principal investigators and coinvestigators were:[1] Passive Lunar Seismic Experiment: Massachusetts...
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Wieczorek and 15 coauthors, M. A. (2006). "The constitution and structure of the lunar interior" (PDF). Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry. 60 (1): 221–364...
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hydrophones. Seismic sources may be used to investigate shallow subsoil structure, for engineering site characterization, or to study deeper structures, either...
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MoonLITE (redirect from Moon Lightweight Interior and Telecoms Experiment)
Lightweight Interior and Telecoms Experiment (MoonLITE), was a proposed British space mission to explore the Moon and develop techniques for future space...
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Induced seismicity is typically earthquakes and tremors that are caused by human activity that alters the stresses and strains on Earth's crust. Most induced...
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Earthquake engineering (redirect from Seismic engineering)
structures more resistant to earthquakes. An earthquake (or seismic) engineer aims to construct structures that will not be damaged in minor shaking and will avoid...
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Hollow Moon (section Seismic activity)
hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. No scientific evidence exists to support the idea; seismic observations and other data collected...
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Reflection seismology (redirect from Seismic reflection)
of the Earth's deep interior is based on observations of earthquake-generated seismic waves transmitted through the Earth's interior (e.g., Mohorovičić...
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Latham, Gary; Dorman, H. James (15 November 1982). "Apollo Lunar Seismic Experiment- Final Summary". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 87...
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place a seismometer, called Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), on the surface of Mars to measure seismic activity and provide accurate...
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Earth's inner core (category Structure of the Earth)
accessible for direct measurement, as there are for Earth's mantle. The characteristics of the core have been deduced mostly from measurements of seismic waves...
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Ocean-bottom seismometer (redirect from Ocean Bottom Seismic (OBS))
sources. Sensors at the sea floor are used to observe acoustic and seismic events. Seismic and acoustic signals may be caused by different sources, by earthquakes...
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Geophysics (section Structure of the interior)
Poirier 2000 Telford, Geldart & Sheriff 1990 Lowrie 2004 "Seismic wave | Earth's Interior Structure & Movement | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 12 January...
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which stretch into space, before landing on the surface for a two-year mission to study materials for evidence of life. The mission, with an estimated cost...
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co-investigator on the NASA RISE (Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment) and SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) projects, which are being hosted...
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Hollow Earth (category Thought experiments)
experiment which defines a coordinate transformation such that the interior of the Earth becomes "exterior" and the exterior becomes "interior". (For...
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Polar Earth Observing Network (POLENET) (section Gamburtsev Antarctic Mountains Seismic Experiment (GAMSEIS))
Mountains Seismic Experiment (GAMSEIS), Lapland Network (LAP-NET), and Long-Term Network. Antarctic Treaty nations are presently collecting seismic and geodetic...
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Upper mantle (section Seismic structure)
perfectly smooth. When there is a conversion to a more dense mineral structure, the seismic velocity rises abruptly and creates a discontinuity. At the top...
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Baikal Rift Zone (section Seismic monitoring)
some seismic data is evidence for a rise in the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere boundary, other researchers have claimed that there are deep structures which...
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