Data Mining at school with InSight space mission

InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is a discovery program, lead by NASA, that has landed a single lander on Mars and other sensors, such as a seismometer, a heat flow probe, and more others sensors that provided a lot of data.

The main payload is the seismometer called SEIS, that is the first seismometer (after Viking fail) to record signal with a very deep precision. The goal of this mission is to investigate the dynamics of Martian tectonic activity and understand all the processes that shaped the Red Planet.

Pupils were able to benefit from the data recorded by SEIS, and transmitted, with little delay, to schools by the science team. In this presentation, we will show all the practical activities done with kids, teens and students in France and other countries during the space mission (2018-2022).

This work has been done by a French team of teachers, in international cooperation with others countries (with UK, USA, Switzerland, Spain, Romania ...) and can be found on this specific website: https://insight.oca.eu

As the InSight mission draws to a close, a survey was conducted within the Education community to assess the impact of such an education component in a research programme.