Wycombe Astronomy Society (WAS)
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Wed, 21 May
|Coleshill Village Hall
Lecture - Dr Anna Horleston - “What's shaking Mars? An overview of NASA's InSight mission”
Time & Location
21 May 2025, 20:00 – 22:00
Coleshill Village Hall, Barracks Hill, Amersham, Coleshill, Amersham HP7 0LN, UK
About the Event
About Dr Anna Horelston
I am a UK Space Agency Fellow in Planetary Seismology. I have had a diverse career starting out with several years working in broadband seismology managing deployments in locations all over the world. I have performed passive and controlled source field work and have been invovled with projects monitoring features including glaciers, volcanoes, subduction zones, passive basins and oil and gas drilling. My interests lie in seismic instrumentation, network management and data interpretation.
After more than a decade of Earth-based work I turned my sights off-world and joined the science team for NASA's InSight Mission to Mars.
InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) was a Mars Lander that launched in May 2018 and arrived on Mars in November 2018. It deployed a seismic station on the surface of Mars, containing both broadband and short period sensors. The mission was looking for tectonic…