Article 57SEY Astronomers get more than they bargained for, as Mars probe InSight's instruments detects solar eclipses

Astronomers get more than they bargained for, as Mars probe InSight's instruments detects solar eclipses

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Tiny tilt from the probe's seisometer could map Phobos' orbit and help boffins predict when it'll crash into Mars

The seismometer and magnetometer on NASA's Martian InSight probe specifically designed to detect marsquakes have proved unexpectedly sensitive enough to respond to Martian eclipses too, scientists report....

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