The spacecraft with solar arrays made in Goleta launched from Vandenberg AFB in 2018
This illustration shows NASA’s InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface. The solar arrays on the left and right sides of InSight were built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems in Goleta and keep the craft powered for its mission. By Janene Scully, Noozhawk North County Editor | @JaneneScully
January 16, 2021
| 9:38 p.m.
The Mars InSight mole’s role will end, but other aspects of the mission will continue for another two years, NASA officials said.
InSight which stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport launched aboard an Atlas V rocket that blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on a foggy May 5, 2018, morning. It was the first interplanetary mission after hundreds of blastoffs from the base and was designed to study the interior of the Red Planet.
Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:48 UTC
It s always a sad day when a mission comes to an end. And it s even sadder when the mission never really got going in the first place.
That s where we re at with NASA s InSight lander. The entire mission isn t over, but the so-called Mole, the instrument designed and built by Germany s DLR, has been pronounced dead.
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an instrument designed to measure the heat flowing from the Martian interior to the surface. The entire InSight mission (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport) was focused on discovering more about the interior of Mars. HP
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14 JANUARY 2021
It s always a sad day when a mission comes to an end. And it s even sadder when the mission never really got going in the first place.
That s where we re at with NASA s InSight lander. The entire mission isn t over, but the so-called Mole, the instrument designed and built by Germany s DLR, has been pronounced dead.
The Mole is, of course, the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3). It s an instrument designed to measure the heat flowing from the Martian interior to the surface. The entire InSight mission (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport) was focused on discovering more about the interior of Mars.
| UPDATED: 12:51, Fri, Jan 15, 2021
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NASA s InSight probe is the first of its kind mission to explore the interior of the Red Planet. After landing on Mars in November 2018, the probe has been listening and collecting data on tremors and rumbles that could tell us more about what is happening deep underground. The mission is comprised of three scientific instruments attached to a central lander, one of which is a heat probe dubbed the mole .