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Mars Lander Will Peer Inside the Red Planet

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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The InSight Mission will look at Mars's seismic activity and latent heat to find out more about how planets get made--and how humans might live there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.5

This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science.

0:37.2

I'm Steve Merski.

0:39.0

Absolutely spectacular mission. And it's not a rover. It's a lander. It's designed to land and deploy several instruments.

0:47.8

Jim Green, NASA's new chief scientist, talking about the Insight Mission to Mars. Insight launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base

0:56.6

in California the morning of May 5th. He spoke with Scientific American Space Editor Lee Billings,

1:02.5

who recorded their conversation. One instrument will be set on the surface and it will, you know,

1:08.4

measure Marsquakes. Now, why are Marsquakes important? Well,

1:12.3

Marsquakes, because we can get the acoustic signals and see how they are displayed in time,

1:23.4

we can tease out the size of the core, even if it's liquid or not, the size of the mantle

1:29.2

and the crust, and compare those with the big terrestrial planet Earth that we know a lot

1:35.6

about its interior. And this will really help us understand how terrestrial planets are made.

1:41.1

Green was NASA's Planetary Science Division Director since 2006 before taking on his

1:46.9

current assignment just last week.

1:49.1

Back to the Insight Mission.

1:50.3

But in general, it also has a human exploration part to it.

1:56.1

For instance, we know Mars is quaking.

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