Construction to Begin on NASA Mars Lander

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Construction to Begin on NASA Mars Lander Scheduled to Launch in 2016

NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review on Friday.

NASA’s Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission will pierce beneath the Martian surface to study its interior. The mission will investigate how Earth-like planets formed and developed their layered inner structure of core, mantle and crust, and will collect information about those interior zones using instruments never before used on Mars.

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Cool I hope I live to see the day when we have a colony here. A friend of mine works on th propulsion systems he dosnt say much it's very secret but three are some new wonders coming through the pipeline.