InSight probe launched in California bound for Mars
The InSight spacecraft was launched today at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and will travel about 385 million kilometers in just over six months until it reaches Mars.
InSight probe launched in California bound for Mars
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The US Space Agency's (NASA) vehicle, which was called Inner Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesics and Heat Transport (InSight), rose rapidly through the misty sky of the United States Air Force's Vandenberg base, propelled by an Atlas V rocket
The launch was originally scheduled for 2016, but instrument leaks resulted in a 2018 postponement.
The favorable launch windows for the red planet appear only every two years.
If everything goes as planned this time, the spacecraft should arrive at its destination on November 26, becoming NASA's first vehicle to land on Mars since the Curiosity spacecraft in 2012.
Its mission will be to detect the Martian earthquakes that, according to NASA's description, are "like a flash that illuminates the internal structure of the planet."