Instrument class · Ground motion (seismic waves)

Seismometer

An instrument that senses the tiny ground motions of quakes and impacts, probing the interior structure of a world by how seismic waves travel through it — as InSight did for Mars.

Instruments of this class

SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure)Instrument
InSight's ultra-sensitive seismometer, which detected hundreds of marsquakes and, for the first time, revealed the internal structure of Mars.

Knowledge connections

Group includesSEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure)

Sources

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NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.

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