Insight

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In May 2018, NASA will be launching a lander to Mars

Attached NASA link will allow you to register to have your name recorded on a microchip aboard Insight lander

Registration closes on the 1st November 2017 

The link will also allow you to create a boarding pass for the trip to Mars

 

 

InSight: A NASA Discovery Program mission Spacecraft

 Mission Website
 Mission Fact Sheet (PDF)

Mission Type: Lander
Launch Window Begins: May 5, 2018
Launch Vehicle: Atlas V 401
Launch Location: Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
Landing: Nov. 26, 2018
Landing Site: Elysium Planitia, Mars

News: NASA Approves 2018 Launch of Mars InSight Mission >>

Overview

InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) is a NASA Discovery Program mission that will place a single geophysical lander on Mars to study its deep interior. But InSight is more than a Mars mission - it is a terrestrial planet explorer that will address one of the most fundamental issues of planetary and solar system science - understanding the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system (including Earth) more than four billion years ago.

By using sophisticated geophysical instruments, InSight will delve deep beneath the surface of Mars, detecting the fingerprints of the processes of terrestrial planet formation, as well as measuring the planet's "vital signs": Its "pulse" (seismology), "temperature" (heat flow probe), and "reflexes" (precision tracking).

InSight seeks to answer one of science's most fundamental questions: How did the terrestrial planets form?

 

 

[Charic]

They'll be selling plots by the acre next to pay for the voyage!

[geordie85]

1 hour ago, Charic said:

They'll be selling plots by the acre next to pay for the voyage!

On the plus side there'll be no light pollution 

[oobydooby]

.....And when the little green Martians come with ray guns firing, those on the list will be first!