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InSight (Interior
Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat
Transport) spacecraft is a NASA Mars mission that may be launched
in March 2016. It is part of the NASA Discovery Program

Mars Interior.
The
aim of the mission is:
1.
Seek to understand the evolutionary formation of rocky planets,
including Earth, by investigating the interior structure and
processes of Mars.
2. Investigate
the dynamics of Martian tectonic activity and meteorite impacts,
which could offer clues about such phenomena on Earth.
The InSight
mission is similar in design to the Phoenix Mars lander used
successfully in 2007 to study ground ice near the north pole of
Mars.

Insight Lander.
History
* Just two
weeks after landing its Curiosity rover on Mars, NASA the US space
agency announced it will send another robot to the planet in 2016.
Did
you know?
The previous USA mission was the Mars Science Laboratory aka
Curiosity.
Books:
Mars: The Inside Story of the Red Planet by
Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest
from Amazon.co.uk
The Smithsonian
Book of Mars by Joseph M. Boyce
from Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
Mapping Mars:
Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World by
Oliver Morton
from Amazon.com,
Amazon.co.uk
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