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NASA to launch another Mars mission

Encouraged by the success of ‘Curiosity’, NASA has announced to launch a new Mars mission in 2016 to take a better look into the guts of the Red Planet.

The mission called ‘InSight’ will investigate why Mars’ crust is not divided into tectonic plates that drift like Earth’s.

Detailed knowledge of the interior of Mars in comparison to Earth will help scientists understand better how terrestrial planets form and evolve, the American space agency said.

‘The exploration of Mars is a top priority for NASA, and the selection of ‘InSight’ ensures we will continue to unlock the mysteries of the Red Planet and lay the groundwork for a future human mission there,’ said NASA administrator Charles Bolden.

The 12th selection in NASA’s series of Discovery-class missions, ‘InSight’ is build on spacecraft technology used in the space agency’s highly successful Phoenix lander mission, which was launched to the Red Planet in 2007 and determined water existed near the surface in the Martian polar regions.

‘InSight will get to the core of Mars,’ said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters.
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