An artist’s impression shows the Mars InSight lander and a cutaway view of Mars’ subsurface, with the lander’s heat probe deployed underground. (NASA Illustration)
NASA’s Mars InSight lander is being prepped for a launch that will send some magical science and engineering toward the Red Planet, including two pint-sized piggyback probes and a seismometer that can measure distances less than the width of an atom.
Now, if only NASA could work its magic on the weather for May 5’s scheduled 4:05 a.m. PT liftoff from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.
