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Saturday, October 28, 2017
My Boarding Pass to Mars
I just signed up for a trip to Mars. When the Mars Lander InSight (Interior Explorations using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) in November 2018 will land on Mars; it will carry hundreds of thousands of names on a small silicon microchip, including my name :)
The InSight mission will seek to understand the evolutionary formation of rocky planets, including Earth, by investigating the interior structure and processes of Mars. InSight will also investigate the dynamics of Martian tectonic activity and meteorite impacts, which could offer clues about such phenomena on Earth.
Do you want to be onboard? See this NASA link.