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#NASA launches latest #Mars lander─── 09:08 Sun, 06 May 2018
NASA's InSight Mars lander (NASA)
NASA has launched its latest Mars lander, called InSight, designed to perch on the surface and listen for "Marsquakes" ahead of eventual human missions to explore the Red Planet.
AFP reports the $993-illion (R12.4-billion) project aims to expand knowledge of interior conditions on Mars, inform efforts to send human explorers there, and reveal how rocky planets like the Earth formed billions of years ago.
If all goes as planned during the 485-million-kilometre journey, the lander should settle on the Red Planet on 26 November.
InSight is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.
AFP
