To explore interior parts of Mars, NASA is going to launch InSight Mars Mission. Pre-launching and launching coverage will be shown on NASA Television and the agency’s website from 3rd May. This is the first mission that will try to know the activities happening interior sections of Mars.
The launching time of InSight : 7:05 a.m. EDT
The place selected to launch : Space Launch complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California
Launch Vehicle : A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket
What will InSight do on Mars?
InSight will study the activities happening in interior parts of Mars. Like earthquakes, there is also marsquakes which will be listened by InSight. Seismic waves produced by marsquakes will help Insight to design a diagram of the deep interiors of Mars. The developed diagram will help them know the nature of other rocky planets.
NASA TV and online mission coverage is as follows (all times Eastern):
Thursday, May 3
4 p.m. – Prelaunch Briefing
Saturday, May 5
- Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters
- Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at JPL
- Annick Sylvestre-Baron, deputy project manager for the InSight seismometer investigation at France's space agency, the Centre National d'Études Spatiales
- Philippe Lognonné, InSight seismometer investigation lead at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France
- Tilman Spohn, investigation lead at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3), an instrument on InSight
- Andrew Klesh, MarCO chief engineer at JPL
- Anne Marinan, MarCO systems engineer at JPL
- Stu Spath, InSight program manager at Lockheed Martin Space
- Tim Dunn, launch director with NASA’s Launch Services Program
- Scott Messer, ULA program manager for NASA launches
- Col. Michael Hough, commander of the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg
- 1st Lt. Kristina Williams, weather officer for the 30th Space Wing
6:30 a.m. – Launch coverage begins.
7:05 a.m. – Launch time
Source: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-sets-sights-on-may-5-launch-of-insight-mars-mission