Gaining InSight

Meet Dr Anna Horleston from Bristol University.


NASA’s InSight lander was active on Mars from November 2018 to
December 2022 – a total of 1446 sols (Martian days). InSight
carried a suite of geophysical instruments designed to help us
understand the interior structure of the red planet. The primary
instrument was a seismometer – the first seismometer to be
deployed to the surface of Mars – and my job was to analyse the
seismic data, to find Marsquakes (like earthquakes but on Mars),
and to figure out what was causing them. I’ll take you through
the highs and lows of working on an active NASA mission, the real
meaning of “remote working”, and show you some of the amazing
results from the mission.