Mar 29, 2018
In case you hadn’t noticed, Mars is a pretty big deal these days. The Red Planet is our most similar neighbor and, unlike any other planet in our Solar System, we’ve explored a large chunk of it with multiple landers and rovers. It will almost certainly be the first planet that humans set foot on (besides Earth of course) and it may very well happen within our lifetimes. That being said, there’s still a ton we don’t know about the planet, and more specifically what its insides look like. Next year, we’ll get our first glimpse.
NASA’s InSight lander is slated to launch in just over a month, and once it completes its long journey to Mars it will be the first piece of NASA hardware to send back data on the interior makeup of the planet. It promises to be a mission of many “firsts,” and NASA just released a nice, in-depth rundown of what InSight will do.
