Mars – Page 2 – Beghein Seismology Lab

SWISE teleconference

by cbegheinEducation, Mars, outreach June 19, 2020July 20, 2020Comments are Disabled

C.B. gave a talk about the InSight mission to the Costa Rica SWISE chapter via teleconference. It was a lot of fun!

First InSight paper by Haotian Xu et al. submitted

by cbegheinMars May 8, 2020May 12, 2020Comments are Disabled

Graduate student Haotian Xu submitted his second first-authored paper (and first InSight first-authored paper) to JGR – Earth and Space! The manuscript is entitled “Measuring Fundamental and Higher Mode Surface Wave Dispersion on Mars From Seismic Waveforms”.

First InSight Results Published!

by cbegheinMars, News February 24, 2020February 24, 2020Comments are Disabled

Exciting news! A series of papers have just been published in Nature Geoscience to present the first results of the InSight mission. Check them out here

SEEC 2020

by cbegheinconferences, Education, Mars, outreach February 7, 2020February 15, 2020Comments are Disabled

C.B. gave a talk to educators at the 2020 Space Exploration Educators Conference (SEEC) at Space Center Houston. We talked about the latest InSight mission results and went over some tools that can be used in the classroom. It was a lot of fun!

SSA Meeting

by cbegheinconferences, Mars April 26, 2019May 8, 2019Comments are Disabled

C.B. attended the Seismological Society of America (SSA) Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA, and presented results about the blind tests performed for the InSight mission: Beghein, C., *Xu, H. et al. (2019), Constraining mars crust and mantle structure from waveform inversion of fundamental and higher mode surface waves, SSA Annual Meeting, Abstract

LPSC 2019

by cbegheinconferences, Mars March 17, 2019May 8, 2019Comments are Disabled

C.B. attended the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in the Woodlands, TX and presented a poster on the blind tests performed for the InSight mission.

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/multimedia/images/2018/measuring-the-pulse-of-mars

Space Exploration Educators Conference

by cbegheinconferences, Education, Mars, outreach February 7, 2019February 10, 2019Comments are Disabled

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

by cbegheinMars, News, outreach January 24, 2019January 24, 2019Comments are Disabled

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/

InSight Landing!

by cbegheinMars, News November 26, 2018November 28, 2018Comments are Disabled

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 …