{"id":15787,"date":"2018-03-30T12:04:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T16:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15787"},"modified":"2018-03-30T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:32:11","slug":"videos-insight-mission-launching-in-may-will-study-interior-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15787","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Insight mission launching in May will study interior of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 5, a\u00a0United Launch Alliance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulalaunch.com\/rockets\/atlas-v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlas V rocket<\/a> is scheduled to launch NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/insight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InSight mission<\/a> to Mars from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Insight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>will study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all rocky planets formed, including Earth and its moon. The lander&#8217;s instruments include a seismometer to detect marsquakes and a probe that will monitor the flow of heat in the planet&#8217;s subsurface.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here is a short video about the mission, which will reach Mars in November:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LKLITDmm4NA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And another video of\u00a0 a panel discussion about the mission. The panel participants included: :<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate in Washington<br \/>\n\u2022 Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at JPL<br \/>\n\u2022 Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at JPL<br \/>\n\u2022 Jaime Singer, InSight instrument deployment lead at JPL<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y2Hh3FeRrMU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is a NASA release about Insight:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/insight\/news\/8325\/nasa-is-ready-to-study-the-heart-of-mars\" target=\"_d\">NASA is Ready to Study the Heart of Mars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASA is about to go on a journey to study the center of Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency held a news conference today at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, detailing the next mission to the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>InSight &#8212; short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport &#8212; is a stationary lander scheduled to launch as early as May 5. It will be the first mission ever dedicated to Mars&#8217; deep interior, and the first NASA mission since the Apollo moon landings to place a seismometer on the soil of another planet.<\/p>\n<p>For JPL&#8217;s Bruce Banerdt, it&#8217;s also a labor of love. Banerdt, InSight&#8217;s principal investigator, has worked for more than 25 years to make the mission a reality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;In some ways InSight is like a scientific time machine that will bring back information about the earliest stages of Mars&#8217; formation four-and-a-half billion years ago,&#8221; Banerdt said. &#8220;It will help us learn how rocky bodies form, including Earth, its moon and even planets in other solar systems.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scientists hope that by detecting marsquakes and other phenomena inside the planet, InSight can better understand how Mars formed. InSight carries a suite of sensitive instruments to gather these data; unlike a rover mission, they require a spacecraft that sits still and carefully places its instruments on the Martian surface.<\/p>\n<p>NASA isn&#8217;t the only agency excited about the mission. Several European partners contributed instruments, or instrument components, for the InSight mission. For example, France&#8217;s Centre National d&#8217;\u00c9tudes Spatiales (CNES) led a multinational team that built an ultra-sensitive seismometer for detecting marsquakes. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) developed a thermal probe that can bury itself up to 16 feet (5 meters) underground and measure heat flowing from inside the planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;InSight is a truly international space mission,&#8221; said Project Manager Tom Hoffman of JPL. &#8220;Our partners have delivered incredibly capable instruments that will make it possible to gather unique science after we land.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Looking deep into Mars will let scientists understand how different its crust, mantle and core are from their counterparts on Earth. In a sense, Mars is the exoplanet next door: a nearby example of how gas, dust and heat combine and arrange themselves into a planet.<\/p>\n<p>InSight is currently at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California undergoing final preparation before launch. On Wednesday, it completed what&#8217;s known as a spin test: the entire spacecraft is rotated at high speeds to confirm its center of gravity.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s critical for its entry, descent and landing on Mars in November, Hoffman said. In the next month, the spacecraft will be mounted to its rocket, connections between them will be checked, and the launch team will go through a final training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;This next month will be exciting,&#8221; Banerdt said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got some final work to do, but we&#8217;re almost ready to go to Mars.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the InSight Project for NASA&#8217;s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, built and tested the spacecraft. InSight is part of NASA&#8217;s Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA&#8217;s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about InSight, visit:\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/insight\/\">https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/insight\/<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=grocery&amp;banner=00G7Z5DTSFKX6MTTBPR2&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=6b49309f10639a0063e8c2710e9c356a&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 5, a\u00a0United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch NASA&#8217;s InSight mission to Mars from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Insight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) will study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all rocky planets formed, including Earth and its moon. The lander&#8217;s instruments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: Insight mission launching in May will study interior of Mars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-46D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15953,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15953","url_meta":{"origin":15787,"position":0},"title":"Videos: Insight Lander mission to Mars set to lift off on Saturday","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A ULA Atlas V rocket is ready for launch this Saturday morning to send the Insight Lander to Mars, where it will use a seismograph and other instruments to study the interior of the Red Planet. 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