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It is a revolutionary discovery which may take part in deciding future of the world and the entire humankind. Lets see what all NASA's MISSION TO MARS IN MAY 2018 is all about !!
Insight isn't just a Mars Mission. it's really a mission to the terrestrial planet interiors. Mars is kind of the Goldilocks planet. it's not too big or it's not too small, it's just right!! If it was too big it would have retained a lot of activity and erased all the evidence that researchers are looking for and if it was too small it never would have undergone the same processes that form the Earth and so it's really just right Mars will give us this insight into early planet formation and early planetary processes. Understanding the details of the structure of the interior of Mars will allow to address questions of planetary formation that we've only had been able to get that before.
Researchers are missing cold hard data and this is what this mission will provide the insight mission is a geophysical mission to Mars. It's going to go to Mars and take its vital sign. It's going to take its heartbeat the Seismic Activity of the planet. So researchers going to be doing that using a Seismometer. A very high precision Seismometer using techniques that have been well developed on earth to get the understanding of the crust, mantle and core and sort of the relationship between those going to take its temperature by measuring the Thermal Gradient of the surface which tells how much heat is coming out.
They also have a heat flow probe we call it HP cubes and what that does is going to basically take the temperature of Mars and from that it'll be able to understand what the Thermal Flux is over the course of full Martian year and it's going to sort of measure its reflexes by looking at how the Rotation Wobbles with the Pile effects of the Sun. Their final experiment is called rise and that's going to be looking at the basically the wobble of Mars to help understand what the core size may be in composition the Lockheed Martin Flight System. NASA’s researchers role is to build the Aeroshell the cruise stage and the lander.
All three of those have extremely high heritage from Phoenix Radiators 50 meters standing back on touchdown. Touchdown single detective it's an advantage for researchers to use heritage designs because they're familiar with them. They've tested them, they've qualified them which work successfully on the surface of Mars. They have a really big head start. A lot of things have come together and make it possible to learn us know a great deal about interior Mars from a Seismometer. So, they have asking their Seismometer that's been under development for many many years. What it does is? It just sits on the surface of Mars and it's like a Stethoscope. It listens to what's going on inside Mars on the HP Cubedinstrument. They have that being delivered to them from DLR that also has been under development for many years and what this probe does is it penetrates into the subsurface up to five meters on its way. It measures the Thermal Conductivity a basic mantra of their Flight System Design is low-risk and with that as a low cost risk they've been to Mars before.
With the JPL Lockheed Martin Team they've been to the surface of Mars before successfully with Phoenix. They know how to operate the arms the surface operations are much much simpler than Phoenix and they're putting two instruments on the surface and then they're leaving them there with no ground. In the loop interaction repetitive weekly uplink-downlink sessions were just made to do this mission. The heritage for insight extends way past is the Flight System and the hardware it extends to the personnel. They processes the tools that they've developed and so forth with one Spacecraft with on a discovery budget they're really going to be able to do the science that for the last 20 years. They thought would cost at least a billion to a billion and a half dollars and require three or four Spacecraft. They have very robust margins built into insight 50% margin on their instrument deployment timeline and they have 50% margin on their science data collection is 500% margin on their daily data volumes.
They're in good shape, well I think this missions going to generate a lot of excitement we're already connecting to the public through Twitter , Facebook and on the web. They're going to be working with educators to put Mars quake data in the hands of the kids to actually work with it as part of their Earth science curriculum and get an angle on Planetary Science. At the same time they've got the right expertise and knowledge to run this mission.
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NASA's JPL Lockheed Martin Team
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