NASA’s InSight Lander Will Probe Mars, Measure Its Quakes

For the first time since launching the Curiosity rover in 2011, NASA is sending a spacecraft to the surface of Mars. Exciting! Surface missions are sexy missions: Everyone loves roving robots and panoramic imagery of other worlds. But the agency’s latest interplanetary emissary won’t be doing any traveling (it’s a lander, not a rover). And …

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