NASA InSight Mars Lander being readied for launch next year

[gary]

In a trifecta of science engineering news stories today, meantime,
in Colorado, engineers and technicians have also been busy.

In an article today at Scientific American (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-rsquo-s-next-mars-lander-zooms-toward-launch/), Leonard David reports on how
NASA next Mars lander is being readied for departure next year.



Full story and pictures here :-
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-rsquo-s-next-mars-lander-zooms-toward-launch/

[cannon_gray]

InSight work is extended until 2022. The expanded mission will be to create a long-term, high-quality seismic dataset of Mars.

[forrestwhite]

InSight again recorded two cases of seismic activity on Mars, Marsquakes reached a magnitude of 3.3. The probe "sensed" two strong shocks of magnitude 3.3 and 3.1 in the Cerberus Fossil area earlier in March