Washington sources reported that Nasa is all set to send the first ever mission dedicated to exploring the deep interior of Mars. Meanwhile the US space agency said it is scheduled to launch on May 5, InSight a stationary lender will also be the first Nasa mission since the Apollo moon landings to place a seismometer, a device that measures quakes, on the soil of another planet.
Bruce Banerdt, principal investigator for InSight “In some ways, InSight is like a scientific time machine that will bring back information about the earliest stages of Mars’ formation 4.5 billion years ago”. Banerdt said the InSight or the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport mission, carries a suite of sensitive instruments to gather data.
Moreover the US space agency said. Nasa is not the
only agency excited about the mission. Several European partners contributed
instruments or instrument components to the InSight mission. Furthermore France’s
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales led a multinational team that built an
ultra-sensitive seismometer for detecting mars quakes.
