EMMY AWARD TO INSIGHT MISSION

 

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News Flash

NASA won two Emmy Awards this past weekend. One was for its InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission to Mars and the other for its first test of a spacecraft that will help bring crewed launches to the International Space Station back to US soil.

NASA’s InSight mission is the first to study the deep interiors of Mars by using an ultra-sensitive seismometer, a heat-flow probe and other instruments.

 

Highlights

• A team from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and SpaceX won the award in the category of Outstanding Interactive Program for multimedia coverage of Demonstration Mission 1, a test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon to the International Space Station.
• The Demonstration Mission 1 was possible because of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, that is paving the way for the commercial transport of astronauts to the space station.
• NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) won the award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program for their coverage which included news, web, education, television and social media efforts of its InSight mission.
• NASA’s JPL had also won the 2018 Emmy Award for the category of Outstanding Original Interactive Program, for its coverage of the Cassini mission’s Grand Finale at Saturn.

 

InSight mission

• It is a robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars.
• It was manufactured by Lockheed Martin, is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and most of its scientific instruments were built by European agencies.
• The mission launched on 5 May 2018 and successfully landed at Elysium Planitia on Mars on 26 November 2018. InSight traveled 483 million km during its journey.

 

Objective

InSight’s objectives are to place a seismometer, called SEIS, on the surface of Mars to measure seismic activity and provide accurate 3D models of the planet’s interior; and measure internal heat flow using a heat probe called HP3 to study Mars’ early geological evolution.

 

Source: Indian Express

 

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