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[S23-1-05] InSight/SEIS@Mars Educational program : Sharing the Seismic Discovery of Mars with a International Network of classes
The InSIght mission will deploy in 11/2018 a suite of geophysical instruments, including 3 axis Very Broad Band Seismometer, 3 axis Short Period Seismometer, 3 axis Flux gate Magnetometer, Heat flow probe, geodetic beacon, infrasound/microbarometer, wind sensors and cameras. As for all NASA missions, children and teenagers will be associated to the K12 InSight program, part of it being associated to the SEIS instrument.
SEIS@Mars Educational project will lead SEIS educational activities and will transmit SEIS data to a network of several hundred of middle and high schools worldwide, associated to existing “seismo(graph) at school" programs in the United States (https://www.iris.edu/hq/sis), France (www.edusismo.org) Switzerland (www.seismoatschool.ethz.ch) and United Kingdom (http://www.bgs.ac.uk/schoolseismology/). The mission website (http://insight.jpl.nasa.gov) and the SEIS web sites (https://insight.oca.eu/
, http://seis-insight.eu ) will provide online educational resources.
If the data transmission to SEIS@schools will be automatic after their release by the NASA Planetary Data System, earlier transmission will be made after mid 2019 through the integration of selected schools to the project activities: the selected classrooms will perform the same activities as the project scientists. They will have the chance to process rapidly the proprietary data in order to identify MarsQuake(s) and will will submit requests to the team in charge of processing all requests in order to get the high frequencies events.
These schools will fully be associated to the InSight/SEIS discoveries and this will allow the students to perform scientific analysis almost at the same time as the international "professional" seismologists.
Although Mars is expected to be less geologically violent than Earth, students with the mission data will be able to perform comparison with Earth and therefore to better understand the difference between our planet and other terrestrial planets.
SEIS@Mars Educational project will lead SEIS educational activities and will transmit SEIS data to a network of several hundred of middle and high schools worldwide, associated to existing “seismo(graph) at school" programs in the United States (https://www.iris.edu/hq/sis), France (www.edusismo.org) Switzerland (www.seismoatschool.ethz.ch) and United Kingdom (http://www.bgs.ac.uk/schoolseismology/). The mission website (http://insight.jpl.nasa.gov) and the SEIS web sites (https://insight.oca.eu/
, http://seis-insight.eu ) will provide online educational resources.
If the data transmission to SEIS@schools will be automatic after their release by the NASA Planetary Data System, earlier transmission will be made after mid 2019 through the integration of selected schools to the project activities: the selected classrooms will perform the same activities as the project scientists. They will have the chance to process rapidly the proprietary data in order to identify MarsQuake(s) and will will submit requests to the team in charge of processing all requests in order to get the high frequencies events.
These schools will fully be associated to the InSight/SEIS discoveries and this will allow the students to perform scientific analysis almost at the same time as the international "professional" seismologists.
Although Mars is expected to be less geologically violent than Earth, students with the mission data will be able to perform comparison with Earth and therefore to better understand the difference between our planet and other terrestrial planets.