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NASA – InSight Mission
April 5 , 2018
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- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced to send its first-ever mission to Mars to study its deep interior and find traces of how it was formed.
- Scheduled to be launched on May 5, 2018, NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) will be the first-ever mission dedicated to study the heart of Mars.
- It also will be the first NASA mission, after the Apollo Moon Landings, to place a seismometer on the soil of another planet. The seismometer is a device that measures quakes.
- InSight is a part of the Discovery Program of NASA which is managed by the Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama.
- InSight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.
- InSight will bring back information about the earliest stages of Mars' formation dating 4.5 billion years ago.
- It will give hints of how rocky bodies form such as Earth, its moon and also about planets of other solar systems.
- Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and tested the InSight spacecraft and JPL manages the InSight Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
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