Publications (6)
The InSight HP mole on Mars: Lessons learned from attempts to penetrate to depth in the Martian soil
T. Spohn, T. L. Hudson, L. Witte +13
The NASA InSight mission payload includes the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package HP to measure the surface heat flow. The package was designed to use a small penetrator…
The InSight HP Penetrator (Mole) on Mars: Soil Properties Derived From the Penetration Attempts and Related Activities
T. Spohn, T. L. Hudson, E. Marteau +31
The NASA InSight Lander on Mars includes the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package HP to measure the surface heat flow of the planet. The package uses temperature sensors t…
Matrix-propagator approach to compute fluid Love numbers and applicability to extrasolar planets
S. Padovan, T. Spohn, P. Baumeister +5
Context. The mass and radius of a planet directly provide its bulk density, which can be interpreted in terms of its overall composition. Any measure of the radial mass distributio…
Early Thermal Evolution of Planetesimals and its Impact on Processing and Dating of Meteoritic Material
H. -P. Gail, M. Trieloff, D. Breuer +1
Radioisotopic ages for meteorites and their components provide constraints on the evolution of small bodies: timescales of accretion, thermal and aqueous metamorphism, differentiat…
The thermal, mechanical, structural, and dielectric properties of cometary nuclei after Rosetta
O. Groussin, N. Attree, Y. Brouet +16
The physical properties of cometary nuclei observed today relate to their complex history and help to constrain their formation and evolution. In this article, we review some of th…
The habitability of a stagnant-lid Earth
N. Tosi, M. Godolt, B. Stracke +7
Plate tectonics is a fundamental component for the habitability of the Earth. Yet whether it is a recurrent feature of terrestrial bodies orbiting other stars or unique to the Eart…