Want to Join Insignt on Its way to Mars?

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Mars  / NASA
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Send Your Name to Mars on NASA's Insight

Do you want to go to Mars but cannot make the trip?  NASA has a way to add your name to the Lander going there called Insight.

InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is a NASA Discovery Program mission that will place a single geophysical lander on Mars to study its deep interior.  

Mission Update: Send your name to the Red Planet aboard InSight

But InSight is more than a Mars mission - it is a terrestrial planet explorer that will address one of the most fundamental issues of planetary and solar system science - understanding the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system (including Earth) more than four billion years ago.

By using sophisticated geophysical instruments, InSight will delve deep beneath the surface of Mars, detecting the fingerprints of the processes of terrestrial planet formation, as well as measuring the planet's "vital signs": Its "pulse" (seismology), "temperature" (heat flow probe), and "reflexes" (precision tracking).

Last Day to Register: September 8, 2015 (Midnight ET)

Source: NASA

Turbulence, A Component that Amplifies the Earth's Magnetic Field

Staff Writer, Nathaniel Diaz

Geology / Magnetosphere
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Turbulence, A Component that Amplifies the Earth's Magnetic Field

Researchers at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS/Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1/IRD/Université de Savoie/IFSTTAR) have shown that turbulence, random motion that takes place in the molten metal in the Earth's core, makes a contribution to our planet's magnetic field. To obtain this result, they modeled the Earth's outer core using liquid sodium enclosed between two rotating concentric metal spheres, a set-up they dubbed the Derviche Tourneur Sodium (DTS) experiment1. Their findings have just been published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Download the Press Release.

Source: CNRS, APS Physics 

The Sphinx, Gobekli Tepe, Ancient Catastrophes - Dr. Robert Schoch

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Archeology / Geology
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The Sphinx, Gobekli Tepe, Ancient Catastrophes 

- Dr. Robert Schoch

What if the history of the Spinx was not accurate? What if it was much older than others have led us to believe? 

Here's an interesting talk about how geology plays apart in discovering history.

Source: Suspicious Observers