Henri Samuel's explanation of the internal structure of Mars (VIDEO)
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Henri Samuel, CNRS researcher and geodynamicist at the IPGP, explains the new model for the internal structure of Mars, proposed in an article published in the journal Nature on 26 October 2023.
The study, carried out by scientists from NASA's InSight mission, including a number of French teams, proposes that the Martian mantle is inhomogeneous and made up of a layer of molten silicates overlying the Martian core. This model, built using seismic data recorded on Mars following a meteorite impact, and which explains all the geophysical observations, revolutionises our vision of the internal structure of the Red Planet and its evolution.
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