InSight spacecraft to study interior of Mars interactive
November 26, 2018 - NASA’s robotic Mars lander, InSight, will study the interior structure of the Red Planet to answer questions about the early formation of the inner
InSight spacecraft to study interior of Mars interactive
November 26, 2018 - NASA’s robotic Mars lander, InSight, will study the interior structure of the Red Planet to answer questions about the early formation of the inner planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars – 4.5 billion years ago.
InSight -- Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport -- is the first mission ever dedicated to the Red Planet’s deep interior and will use its trio of instruments to enable scientists to understand how different its crust, mantle and core are from their counterparts on Earth.
InSight’s Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment, RISE, uses the same technology that a smartphone uses to find its location. RISE will precisely track the location of the lander to determine just how much the North Pole wobbles as Mars orbits the Sun.
These observations wil