Friday 11 September 2015

Mission to Mars!


So, my name (along with thousands of others to be fair) will be going on a journey to Mars!

Courtesy of NASA I'll (in name only) be hitchhiking a ride on a silicon microchip aboard the Insight Mars Lander when it launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in March next year.

This mission, the first of its kind, is dedicated to investigating the interior of the planet. It will place a seismometer on the surface of the planet to measure quakes and learn more about the planet's interior using seismic waves and will also use a self-hammering heat probe to burrow deeper than ever before.

(cool yes?)



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