Newly launched Mars-bound spacecraft, Insight, is looking more than skin deep.
The news: At 4:05am PST on Saturday, NASA's Insight launched from California aboard an Atlas V rocket towards our closest planetary neighbor. This was the first interplanetary mission to take off from the US west coast. The probe is slated to touch down on Mars’s equator on November 26.
What it will be doing: Insight will analyze the interior of the planet using an extremely sensitive seismometer and by burrowing 10 to 16 feet into Martian soil. There it will be searching for radiation and “marsquakes.”
Why it matters: Science! Also, if we ever want to live on Mars, we’re going to want to know how seismically active it is.
The news: At 4:05am PST on Saturday, NASA's Insight launched from California aboard an Atlas V rocket towards our closest planetary neighbor. This was the first interplanetary mission to take off from the US west coast. The probe is slated to touch down on Mars’s equator on November 26.
What it will be doing: Insight will analyze the interior of the planet using an extremely sensitive seismometer and by burrowing 10 to 16 feet into Martian soil. There it will be searching for radiation and “marsquakes.”
Why it matters: Science! Also, if we ever want to live on Mars, we’re going to want to know how seismically active it is.
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