After years of work by the brightest minds in the world, we’ll all get to experience the pinnacle of human achievement when InSight lands on Mars Monday.
I didn’t study rocket science. My experience of shooting stuff into the sky extends to some ill-fated school projects, and I certainly wasn’t invited to join the MIT Rocket Team (they still haven’t returned my calls).
But on Monday, just like everyone else around the world, I’ll get a chance to live the flush-faced excitement of a rocket scientist as NASA lands its InSight mission on Mars .
InSight (short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) has set out to learn about the interior of the Red Planet and how it was formed, with the hope that we’ll learn more about the origins of our own planet.
It will drill deeper beneath the Martian surface than ever before to find out about Marsquakes and the interior heat of the planet.
