NASA launches interplanetary mission to Mars

Source: The Hill | May 5, 2018 | Luis Sanchez

NASA launched an unmanned spacecraft on Saturday that aims to land on Mars to conduct geologic excavations, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.

The Mars InSight lander was launched, in a first for an interplanetary mission, from California rather than Florida’s Cape Canaveral.

The spacecraft will travel 300 million miles over more than six months to reach Mars.

InSight will dig nearly 16 feet into Mars — the deepest a spacecraft has ever dug into the red planet — and record the temperature. It will also attempt to measure marsquakes using a seismometer it will place on Mars’ surface, the AP reported.

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If the landing is a success, InSight will be the first spacecraft NASA has landed on Mars since the Curiosity rover in 2012.

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