Hi, I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

We've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

Today you learn about NASA's Insight Lander Mission to Mars and how you can watch

the launch as early as this weekend, which came first, the chicken or the egg, and a common form

of synesthesia that you might have.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Hey Cody, know what's happening this weekend?

Is it Cinco de Mayo?

Margaritas?

It is!

But it's also the beginning of the launch window for the Mars Insight Mission. It could launch as early

as Saturday, May 5th. And in true curiosity fashion, we did our homework on the latest and

greatest space mission. So it's called the Insight Lander. Insight is short for interior

exploration using seismic investigations, geodesy, and heat transport. It's a

Mars lander and it's going to study the inner space of Mars. It's crust, mantle, and core.

That's important because the closest planets to the sun are all super different.

Mercury is barren like our moon is.

Venus is totally hellish, and Mars has a thin atmosphere that disappeared over the millennia,

and Earth is the only one that supports life that we know of.

Planetary scientists are trying to figure out why these worlds are

also different. They think part of the reason might come from the composition of the

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