Space Exploration Educators Conference
C.B. gave a presentation about InSight and seismic waves to K-12 educators during the Space Exploration Educators Conference at Space Center Houston.
InSight brings the first piece of UCLA to the surface of Mars
The Insight landing and UCLA’s role in the mission was featured on the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences website: https://www.physicalsciences.ucla.edu/mars-insight-mission/
AGU meeting
C.B. attended the Fall AGU meeting in Washington, DC. She presented work in collaboration with Saskia Goes on “Comparison of thermal lithosphere-asthenosphere models with geophysical observations”.
InSight Landing!
InSight landed on Mars safely! Our research group attended the landing viewing party at JPL this morning and it was AWESOME. The landing went smoothly, everything went according to plan, and we got a first picture of the ground soon after the landing. The solar panels were deployed a few hours later and a new …
Beghein et al. (2018) accepted
Our paper entitled “Thermal Nature and Resolution of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary Under the Pacific From Surface Waves” has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Journal International: Beghein, C., *Xing, Z., and Goes, S., Thermal Nature and Resolution of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary Under the Pacific From Surface Waves, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1093/gji/ggy490, preprint here
Explore Your Universe 2018
Erik Weidner represented our group at the 2018 EYU event that takes place every year at UCLA. He talked about modeling the interior of planets such as Earth and Mars with seismic data to visiting children and their parents!
InSight Team Meeting
Last week, C.B. attended the InSight Team Meeting in Graz, Austria. Exciting work ahead and so much to learn!
Seismology featured in UCLA Magazine
C.B. as well as seismology colleagues in EPSS and the Engineering department at UCLA were quoted in a story that appeared in UCLA Magazine: http://magazine.ucla.edu/features/the-evolution-of-earthquake-science/
AGU Fall meeting scheduling
C.B. went to Washington DC to work on scheduling the AGU Fall meeting with other section representatives.
InSight!
C.B.’s NASA Participating Scientist proposal was selected and she is now part of the InSight science team! A seismometer is on its way to Mars and will land on November 26. The data that will be analyzed will help constrain the interior structure of Mars https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/
