Nasa mission to map Mars interior will launch this weekend Read moreIn a twist, Nasa launched the Mars InSight lander from California rather than Florida’s Cape Canaveral. InSight will dig deeper into Mars than ever before – nearly 16ft – to take the planet’s temperature. “It’s going to be awesome.”Nasa has not put a spacecraft down on Mars since the Curiosity rover in 2012. Unlike our active Earth, Mars has not been transformed by plate tectonics and other processes, he noted. Nasa normally launches from Cape Canaveral, but decided to switch to California for InSight to take advantage of a shorter flight backlog.

Source: The Guardian May 05, 2018 11:33 UTC