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NASA’s Journey to Mars Ramps Up with InSight, Key Tests Pave Path to 2016 Lander Launch
NASA’s InSight Mars lander spacecraft in a Lockheed Martin clean room near Denver. As part of a series of deployment tests, the spacecraft was commanded to deploy its solar arrays in the clean room to test and verify the exact process that it will use on the surface of Mars. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin
NASA’s ‘Journey to Mars’ is ramping up significantly with ‘InSight’ – as the agency’s next Red Planet lander has now been assembled into its flight configuration and begun a comprehensive series of rigorous and critical environmental stress tests that will pave the path to launch in 2016 on a mission to unlock the riddles of the Martian core.
The countdown clock is ticking relentlessly and in less than nine months time, NASA’s InSight Mars lander is (…)
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Post tags: Atlas V rocket, CNES, Curiosity Rover, DLR, InSight, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Journey to Mars, JPL, Lockheed Martin, Mars, Mars landers, Mars Rovers, NASA, Opportunity Rover, Phoenix Lander, Phoenix Mars Lander, red planet, ULA, Vandenberg Air Force Base
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/120518/nasas-journey-to-mars-ramps-up-with-insight-key-tests-pave-path-to-2016-lander-launch/
