InSight
NASA · launched 2018 · ended 2022
Mars lander that measured marsquakes in Elysium Planitia.
Right now · as of
223 million km (1.49 AU) from Earth; a signal takes 12 min 24 s
Open in 3DThe flight
May 5, 2018
Launched on Atlas V 401 from Vandenberg SLC-3E
November 13, 2018
Arrives at Mars
November 26, 2018
Lands on Mars
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
InSight
NASA Mars lander (2018–2022)
The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission was a robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of the planet Mars. It was manufactured by Lockheed Martin Space, was managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and two of its three scientific instruments were built by European agencies.
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Facts
- What it is
- Lander
- Agency
- NASA
- Launched
- May 5, 2018
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Launch site
- Vandenberg SLC-3E
- Landed on Mars
- 2018
- Landing site
- InSight · 4.50°N 135.62°E
- Mission ended
- 2022
- International designator
- 2018-042A
- 3D model
- NASA/Brian E. Kumanchik