New Mars Lander

in space on 2014-05-20 16:22 (#3MF)

Cool news from NASA:

All systems are go for construction of a new Mars lander .

NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander, after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review on Friday. NASA's Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission will pierce beneath the Martian surface to study its interior. The mission will investigate how Earth-like planets formed and developed their layered inner structure of core, mantle and crust, and will collect information about those interior zones using instruments never before used on Mars.

I'm happy to have some good news related to space exploration, since the US-Russia space cooperation relationship is such a mess .