The design of a permanent human habitat on a planetary body other than the Earth is an
idea introduced many decades ago, which became even more significant after the landing of …

A new era of lunar exploration has begun bringing immense opportunities for science as
well. It has been proposed to deploy a new generation of observatories on the lunar surface …

Constraints on the composition of Mars principally derive from chemical analyses of a set of
Martian meteorites that rely either on determinations of their refractory element abundances …

Abstract The InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat
Transport) mission has been collecting high-quality seismic data on Mars since early 2019 …

The InSight lander carried an Instrument Deployment System (IDS) that included an
Instrument Deployment Arm (IDA), scoop, five finger “claw” grapple, forearm-mounted …

To investigate the structures and properties of shallow material in extraterrestrial
environments, we have developed a lunar active seismic profiler (LASP), which integrates …

Recent findings of evolved martian crustal materials by orbiters and rovers challenged the
longstanding notion of an only-tholeiitic basaltic crust. Models exploring intraplate magmatic …

Seismic anisotropy, arising from the crystallographic or lattice-preferred orientation of
anisotropic minerals or the shape-preferred orientation of melts or cracks, can establish a …

After an auspicious beginning, with the Ranger, Apollo and Viking missions carrying multiple
seismometers into space, planetary seismology lay dormant for 40 years, save for a cruelly …