NASA has launched many groundbreaking missions to Mars, but its next mission will do so literally. The Mars InSight lander, planned for launch May 5, will be the first spacecraft dedicated to studying the deep interior of the red planet. The discoveries it makes could unlock hidden secrets about the structure of Mars, how it evolved and how other rocky planets — including Earth — came to be. “The goal of InSight is nothing less than to better understand the birth of the Earth, the birth of the planet that we live on, and we’re going to do that by going to Mars,” said Bruce Banerdt, InSight’s principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge. read more http://www.post-gazette.com/news/sc...the-red-planet-s-surface/stories/201804010205
