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One of the mission's seismometers, fabricated on a 2.5 cm square of Silicon
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Tiny seismometers capable of detecting minute seismic activity have been provided by the Imperial lab of Professor Pike for a NASA mission to Mars.
The journey of the sensors from Imperial to Mars is covered by the BBC:
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