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The Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment on the InSight Mission to Mars

Golombek, Matthew P.; Asmar, Sami W.; Yseboodt, Marie +5 more

The Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment (RISE) on-board the InSight mission will use the lander's X-band (8 GHz) radio system in combination with tracking stations of the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to determine the rotation of Mars. RISE will measure the nutation of the Martian spin axis, detecting for the first time the effect of the li…