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Meet the People Behind NASA's InSight Mars Lander

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InSight Traveling to Mars

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InSight Steers Toward Mars

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Behind the Spacecraft

Meet some of the team members behind the first mission ever dedicated to studying Mars' deep interior.

Meet MarCO: Engineer Tests CubeSats for Better Communication at Mars

Farah Alibay
EngineerInSight & MarCO

Inside InSight: Scientist Helps Choose a Landing Site on Mars

Ingrid Daubar
Scientist

Inside InSight: A Mars Explorer and a Musician

Philippe Laudet
Project Manager SEIS instrument

Inside InSight: Ghanaian Engineer Works on Robotic Arms for Mars

Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu
Instrument Deployment System Lead

Inside InSight: French Scientist Aims to Detect Quakes on Mars

Philippe Lognonné
Principal Investigator SEIS instrument

Meet MarCO: Engineer Builds Mars Spacecraft That Can Fit in Your Backpack

Anne Marinan
Systems Engineer MarCO

Inside InSight: German Scientist Aims to Take Mars' Temperature

Tilman Spohn
Principal Investigator HP³ instrument

Inside InSight: Swiss-Italian Scientist Studies Earthquakes and Marsquakes

Domenico Giardini
Chair and Professor Seismology & Geodynamics

Inside InSight: Engineer Helps Land a Spacecraft on Mars

Julie Wertz
Systems Engineer Entry, Descent and Landing

Inside InSight: Mars Science and Space Tattoos

Troy Lee Hudson
Scientist & Engineer

Inside InSight: From Migrant Farming to Mars

Marleen Martinez Sundgaard
Lead Testbed Engineer

Inside InSight: Mars Engineer Keeps Spacecraft - and People - Healthy

Ravi Prakash
Systems Engineer

InSight Mars Roadshow

We are going on the road and coming to a city near you! Stop by, chat with NASA scientists and engineers, and learn about marsquakes, and how InSight will study in-depth the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle and core. Cities and Tour Dates ››

Latest News

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Upcoming Events

InSight Mars Roadshow Aug. 23 - 24, 2018 Barstow, CA Barstow Harvey House

InSight Mars Roadshow Oct. 18 - 20, 2018 Los Angeles, CA California Science Center

InSight Lands on Mars Nov. 26, 2018 Elysium Planitia, Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing

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InSight is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago.

Mission Overview

Mission Overview

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InSight is scheduled to land on November 26, 2018.

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InSight is scheduled to launch in May 2018, followed by six months of cruise to Mars, arrival, and Mars surface operations.

Mission Timeline

Mission Timeline

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InSight's landing site is Elysium Planitia, a flat, smooth plain selected not for its surface features, but for safety considerations.

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Learn about the Mars Lander's instruments from A-Z. Take a deep dive into detailed descriptions about the science instruments.