New mission to Red Planet gets green light: JPL’s InSight lander will explore how Mars and other rocky planets were formed in the early days of the solar system.

(Fun fact: InSight is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.)

Photo: An artist’s rendering shows the proposed InSight mission to Mars. The lander would measure seismic and tidal activity to study how rocky planets formed. Credit: NASA

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    Hey we just put another rover on Mars and this is crazy but give us more money and we’ll do even more awesome shit maybe

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