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Nasa’s Insight mission to Mars explained
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Discover the Insight robotic lander, a high-technology spacecraft. It will be exploring Mars during the next few years.
The Insight mission (source:rtl.fr)
The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) was made by LockheedMartin. It is a lander, with different payload instruments. It was launched on 5 May 2018 and landed on Mars on 26 November 2018. The InSight station is equipped with two main instruments designed in Europe: the SEIS broadband seismometer and the HP3 thermometer, whose probe will descend to a depth of 5 meters to measure the heat flow that escapes from the planet. Thanks to them, scientists hope to finally be able to determine whether Mars' nucleus is solid or liquid and understand why it does not have an active tectonic like on Earth or how the planet has lost its magnetic field.
It was December 14, 1972. 46 years later, American astronaut Eugene Cernan is still considered the last man to walk on the moon. Gene Cernan with an American flag (source: Harrisson Schmitt/NASA)
The U.S. airline is ordering an additional 30 Airbus A321neo aircraft to meet its future fleet needs. The newly ordered aircraft are in addition to the 125 A321neo aircraft already ordered. Delta’s A321neo rendering (credits:Airbus)
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