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Have you ever wondered what the weather is like on Mars? In this special live event, join a world-leading scientist who works on two Mars Rovers to find out. Dr. Claire Newman is a planetary atmospheric specialist who studies weather and climate on Mars. We take a closer look at what recent surface missions have taught us and why NASA scientists are so curious about the red planet. Claire shares weather reports from the Perseverance Rover which describe a tumultuous place of violent dust storms, desert landscapes, and wildly fluctuating temperatures. Together we explore the key differences and similarities between weather on Earth and Mars. CLAIRE NEWMAN Dr. Claire Newman is a planetary atmospheric scientist who works on weather and climate on Mars and Titan, specialising in the study of dust storms. She is a team member on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, InSight Mars lander, and Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, as well as the upcoming Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft.

According to reports, Mars Wrigley, the producer of snacks like Mars and Snickers chocolate bars has maintained its title as the world's biggest confectionery firm in 2023 with $22bn of sales. The company is targeting high growth markets including  Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand…markets that have significant opportunities for growth and innovation for the snacking category in a complex and diverse region. What's its strategy to conquer emerging markets in Asia? What kind of challenges is the company facing in such a culturally diverse region? Kalpesh Parmar, Regional General Manager for Mars Wrigley Asia, tells us more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Een nieuwe analyse van data die is verzameld door de InSight Mars-lander is het beste bewijs tot nu toe voor het nog steeds aanwezig zijn van vloeibaar water op Mars. Naast wat er vastgevroren zit op de polen. Als deze analyse klopt, dan verandert dat nogal de ideeën over de leefbaarheid van deze planeet. De data werd verzameld in 2022. Het gaat om informatie over de ondergrond, waaronder hoe snel de golven van bevingen door de bodem trekken. Daarmee kan iets worden gezegd over wat die onderweg allemaal tegenkomen en dus ook over de samenstelling. Wat hierover aan gegevens binnenkwam is vervolgens in een geologisch model gestopt. En op basis daarvan zeggen de wetenschappers nu: hier moet haast wel vloeibaar water zitten. Dat zou de beste verklaring zijn voor wat ze op sommige plekken ‘zien zitten' in de bodem. Lees hier meer over het onderzoek: Presence of liquid water most probable explanation for data collected by mars landerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What caused the largest marsquake ever recorded? Benjamin Fernando, a post-doctoral fellow from the University of Oxford, joins Planetary Radio this week to talk about the 4.7-magnitude marsquake recorded by NASA's InSight Mars lander and the international effort it took to pinpoint the cause of the quake. Then Bruce Betts, the chief scientist of The Planetary Society, and host Sarah Al-Ahmed chat about their earthquake experiences and share a fresh Random Space Fact in this week's What's Up.  Discover more at: https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/2023-largest-marsquake See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 29 November 2023: Space Show News InSight Mars Lander: Marking the 5th anniversary of the landing of the InSight spacecraft on Mars (Audio inserts courtesy BBC, DLR) WRESAT (Weapons Research Establishment Satellite): With the launch of Melbourne University's SpIRIT satellite pending, a look back to the launch, 56 years ago, of WRESAT and six years ago of Buccaneer, and of other Australian satellites. (Audio inserts courtesy DST)

NASA says it is retiring its InSight Mars lander mission, after over four years of collecting data on the red planet. - NASA mengatakan akan menghentikan misi pendarat InSight Mars, setelah lebih dari empat tahun mengumpulkan data di planet merah tersebut.

NASA says it is retiring its InSight Mars lander mission, after over four years of collecting data on the red planet. InSight recently fell silent for the first time since arriving on Mars; its power levels had been dwindling for months because of dust coating its solar panels.

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Virgin Orbit has secured licences for the UK's first space launch and we hear from the lead scientist who uncovered the ‘first record of a dinosaur eating a mammal'. Plus, Musk says he will step down as Twitter CEO once he finds ‘someone foolish enough' to replace him.Also in this episode:Nasa's Insight Mars lander goes dark after 4 years on Red Planet Queen's ‘hedgehog' mushroom among new discoveries recorded by Kew Gardens in 2022 Archaeologists pinpoint ‘tomb of Jesus' midwife' in Israeli forest Star Trek-style detector 'could spot alien spaceships' in the Milky WayRolls-Royce completes build of UltraFan demonstrator engine designed to run on sustainable fuel Messi's World Cup photo beats egg to be the most-liked picture ever on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AccuWeather Daily brings you the top trending weather story of the day - every day.

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Here's your morning news: L.A. County's rollout of COVID vaccines for kids younger than 5 is underway; Nurses at Kaiser Permanente's LA Medical Center plan to hold one-day strike Thursday; D.A. George Gascon defending decision to seek probation for man who shot and killed two El Monte police officers last week; NASA's Insight Mars lander is powering down; Federal prosecutors plan to dismiss all remaining charges against Michael Avenatti in fraud case in O.C.; Efforts to save the last commercial orange grove in Los Angeles may end with a partial victory.  This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people. Support the show: https://laist.com

Since 2018, Nasa's InSight Mars lander has been sitting on the surface listening to the seismic rumbles of the red planet's deep interior. But this week, plans were announced to finally phase down its activity, as martian dust obscures too much of its solar panels to power it through the forthcoming winter. Jon Amos tells Vic Gill of some of its many successes, and quite why it didn't fly with a duster on board. 50 years of observations across Australia's northern tropical forests suggest yet more bad news for the climate. Trees' mortality has, it seems, doubled since the 1980s. As Oxford University's David Bauman tells Vic, it seems to be linked to a drying of the air as temperatures rise, and if the trend is also true across the world's other moist tropical forests, they could rapidly slip from being carbon sinks, to carbon sources. Conservationists say we're losing animal species faster today than at any point in the last 10 million years of Earth's history. And one approach aims to save as many of those lost animals as possible – after they've died. Biobanking – saving frozen tissue from dead animals for future cloning or other reproductive technologies could buy us time to prevent extinction - or even reverse it. Vic visits Nature's Safe, where technology used in pedigree breeding is being deployed to preserve the cells and tissue of endangered species when individuals die or are euthanised, for possible research in the future, or even cloning. Meanwhile, 2.5 miles off the coast of Jersey, archaeologists are holing up in a medieval fortress waiting for the few lowest tides of the year to give them access to the Violet Bank - an area of reef thought once to have been home to Neanderthal populations, but which now is for most of the year submerged by the sea. Marnie Chesterton has been talking to UCL's Matt Pope between the ebbs and flows. Presented by Victoria Gill Reporters: Marnie Chesterton and Jonathan Amos Produced by Alex Mansfield

We have sent so many rovers, landers, and orbiters to Mars over the past few decades, including the Perseverance rover. So surely we know just about everything we need to know about the red planet, right? Absolutely not! We don't even really know what underneath the surface of the crust or how Mars evolved to the point it's at now. It's thought that Mars once had conditions that were beneficial to life, instead of being the desolate wasteland it is today. Luckily, the InSight Mars lander is firmly planted on the surface finding out some critical information that can help scientists learn more about Mars and its evolution. Three new papers, just recently published in Science, shed some light on the composition of the interior of Mars. Let's talk about these pretty interesting results! Image from the journal Science. NASA's announcement of InSight's findings. Summary of the journal articles published in Science. InSight dumping sand and dirt on itself to clean its solar panels! Why the mole couldn't dig itself underground, among other common questions. Check out the show's website! Follow the show on social media: Facebook or Instagram or Twitter Want to get in touch with the show? Please email SP3Podcast@gmail.com for any questions, episode ideas, or suggestions! Please consider becoming a patron of the show by signing up on Patreon! It helps the show create new and interesting episodes and you might even have the chance to be on a future episode! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sp3-space-sports-spectro/support

Kimberly Potter, the officer that shot and killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man, has been fired and will face second-degree manslaughter charges. Potter, a 26 year veteran of the Brooklyn Center, MN police force and president of the police union. She claims she meant to use a taser, but pulled her weapon instead.  In more arguments for why we need to defund the police, Chicago police released body cam footage of an officer killing 13-year-old young black man, Adam Toledo, as he raised his hands up.  Minnesota protests continued and have been met with militarized police response.  Meanwhile, in Virginia a cop drew a weapon and pepper-sprayed a uniformed soldier at a traffic stop. The Windsor Police Department officer apparently thought the car had no plates, despite the new car temporary tags clearly displayed in the rear-window. When Army lieutenant Caron Nazario asked the officer what was going, officer Joe Jutierrez responde, “What’s going on is you’re fixing to ride the lightning, son.”  And lawyers for Derek Chauvin, the cop that slowly killed George Floyd, rested their case after trying to smear Floyd and falsely attribute his death to drugs. Chauvin refused to take the stand, invoking the 5th Amendment. President Biden has been dragging his feet on relaxing Trump’s inhumane restrictions on refugees, leading to a lot of head-scratching and anger from Democrats and immigrant and refugee rights groups. According to new reporting by CNN, the reason for the delay is that Biden is fretting over the “political optics” of allowing more refugees into the country. The delay has left thousands of people seeking refuge in a state of limbo after an already lengthy waiting process.  The Guardian reports that police officers and public officials from around the country have been donating to Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense fund.  An executive internal affairs officer from Norfolk Virginia gave a donation that said “keep your head up, you’ve done nothing wrong.” The Florida Senate passed an “anti-riot bill” that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has been drooling over. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the bill will “grant civil immunity to people who drive through protestors blocking a road; prevent people arrested for rioting or offenses committed during a riot from bailing out of jail until their first court appearance; and impose a six-month mandatory sentence for battery on a police officer during a riot.”  In addition, “A new crime of “mob intimidation,” defined as three or more people “acting with a common intent” forcing or threatening to force another person from taking a viewpoint against their will, is created by the bill. It is punishable as a first-degree misdemeanor, and bail is denied until first court appearance for anyone charged with the crime.” More alarming news on the climate front. In a new study by the Key Biodiversity Areas Secretariat in Cambridge, UK, scientists found that “just 3% of the world’s land remains ecologically intact with healthy populations of all its original animals and undisturbed habitat,” according to The Guardian. Previous analyses put the number between 20- and 40%. However, those studies relied heavily on satellite images, which can give the false impression that the ecosystems are intact. The numbers are in. Workers hoping to unionize the Amazon plant in Bessemer, AL lost their election in a blowout. The vote was 738 in favor to 1,798 against.. Writing in the The Nation, Jane McAlevey argues that the effort does not mean that unionizing Amazon plants are doomed; rather, there were warning signs all over that the campaign had some serious problems - some due to Amazon’s union-busting efforts, but also due to some “fatal flaws” in the organizing campaign itself.  Inaccurate lists of workers Poor handling of discussions about union dues Focus on plant gates, no house calls No sign of majority support Seth Grove and the House State Government Committee ended their dog and pony show relitigating the 2020 election. The meetings spanned 2 months, took up a total of 48 hours and continued to spread disinformation surrounding the 2020 election.  In the waning days, Grove invited members from multiple Heritage Foundation fronts, the Foundation for Government Accountability, the Public Interest Legal Foundation and other Koch Brother backed organizations to continue Trump’s big lie. The next phase of the PA House Republican’s plan to cancel voting rights in Pennsylvania moves forward. It may take months for legislation to take shape, but Pennsylvania will be a focal point as Republicans look to push a smorgasbord of voter suppression tactics, like signature matching and voter ID’s.  The Philadelphia Police Department launched a short-lived initiative to combat gun violence in the city this week.  Commissioner Outlaw announced that the police department was going to team up with the Department of Parks and Recreation and teach children about gun safety.  The problem?  The Commissioner stated that they were going to use the NRA’s Eddie Eagle program without stating it was an NRA backed program.  The initiative lasted less than a day after gun safety advocates and residents pounced on this idea.  Philadelphia Councilmember Kendra Brooks, introduced two bills this week that would end practice of landlords denying turning away prospective tenants based upon eviction records. Brooks explained her rationale to WHYY: “Structural barriers and biases in the renting process disproportionately impact low-income renters, especially Black women. And as we know, these same renters have been hit the hardest by the pandemic. We must work toward a pandemic recovery that leaves no one behind and protecting renters’ rights to access affordable rental properties is a key part of that.” PASSHE Chancellor Dan Greenstein, made his case for his plan to fundamentally redesign the 14 state-owned university system to the Board of Governors on Thursday. Board of Governors Chair, Cynthia Shapira, called Greenstein’s remarks “inspirational” as she threw her support behind his plans to merge 6 of the universities into 2; fire hundreds of faculty and staff; and force students into more online classes. A piece of good news from the meeting that is getting much more coverage is the Board agree to freeze tuition for a third straight year.  Kutztown University student, Natalie Santos running for Allentown City Council.  NASA’s InSight Mars lander is going into emergency hibernation due to a build up of dust on the lander’s solar panels. Since landing in Elysium Planitia in 2018, InSight has been busy - detecting more than 500 Mars quakes and beginning to measure Mars’s core. Scientists say the lack of the powerful gusts of wind that are common in other parts of the planet have led to the build up.  Still no flight for Ingenuity. An expected test flight for the little Mars helicopter was called off earlier this week due to a software issue related to its flight control. A fix has been identified and the NASA team say that Ingenuity may be ready to give it another go as early as next week.  Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk announced that not only will the Artemis mission put the first woman on the moon, it will also send the first person of color as well.  I will be seeking out Human Robot beer this coming week. Free Will releases.

Do You Have The ‘Right Stuff’ To Be An Astronaut? If you’ve ever considered being an astronaut, this might be your chance to land that dream job. This week, NASA opened applications for a new class of astronaut candidates. It’s a full-time position based in Houston, Texas, paying over $104,000 per year. Job duties would include “conducting operations in space, including on the International Space Station (ISS) and in the development and testing of future spacecraft” and “performing extravehicular activities (EVA) and robotics operations using the remote manipulator system.” Please note that “substantial travel” is required.  How do you know if you have the ‘right stuff’ to apply?  Frank Rubio, a NASA astronaut who completed the most recent previous selection program in 2017, joins Ira to talk about what other qualities are valuable in an astronaut applicant—and the training program for those accepted.   Could A “Marsquake” Knock Down Your House? On April 6, 2019, NASA’s InSight Mars lander recorded a sound researchers had been waiting to hear for months. To the untrained listener, it may sound like someone had turned up the volume on the hum of Martian wind. But NASA researchers could hear the likely first-ever “marsquake” recorded by the mission. NASA’s InSight carries a suite of instruments to help study what’s happening deep within the Martian surface, including an ultra-sensitive seismometer (SEIS) for detecting suspected quakes on Mars. Now closing in on the end of it’s two-year primary mission, NASA scientists are studying the seismic data they’ve collected so far, comparing it to the well-known tectonic activity of Earth, and mapping out what to explore from here. Deputy principal investigator Suzanne Smrekar joins Ira to answer our pressing marsquake questions. New Insight Into Whales On The Go  Like the seasonal migrations of birds, whales are roamers. Every year, they travel thousands of miles, from the warm waters of the equatorial regions for breeding to the colder polar waters for feeding. But how do they find their way so consistently and precisely every year?  New research in Current Biology this month adds more weight to one idea of how whales stay on course: Similar to birds, whales may detect the Earth’s magnetic field lines. Duke University graduate student Jesse Granger explains why a strong connection between gray whale strandings and solar activity could boost the magnetoreception theory. Other research in Marine Mammal Science explores why whales leave the food-rich waters of the Arctic and Antarctic at all. Marine ecologist Robert Pitman of Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Center explains why this annual movement may not be about breeding—but rather, allowing their skin to molt and remain healthy. 

NASA’s InSight Mars lander keeps daily records of weather conditions at the Elysium Planitia landing site on the red planet. Last week saw daytime highs from 8 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit; lows fell to -139 degrees. Seasons are twice as long on Mars as on Earth because the Martian year is 687 days; almost double an Earth year. Mars doesn’t have months like we have months though. Our concept is based on a lunar orbit. Mars’ moons orbit much faster – Phobos every 8 hours, Deimos every 30 hours; so well over 2,000 orbits per 30 day ‘month’ for Phobos and over 500 orbits per ‘month’ for Deimos. InSight landed Nov. 2018 on a two-year mission to better understand the interior of Mars using both surface and drilling geophysical sensors. Turning to night sky highlights this week: Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn have the morning sky at 6:00 a.m.; Venus has the evening at 6:00 p.m. We’re gaining 2.5 minutes of sunlight per day through March.

Mandag den 26. november omkring klokken 21 om aftenen blev der skrevet et lille stykke rum-historie, da fartøjet Insight landede på mars efter en rejse på et halvt år og ikke mindre end 480 millioner kilometer. Og det er ikke første gang, at vi har sendt fartøjer og andre ting og sager til Mars, men den her gang blev der altså klappet ekstra højt hos Nasa, da Insight endelig var landet uden problemer. Det er nemlig første gang nogensinde, at en rumsonde skal forsøge at komme IND i selve planeten i stedet for bare at kradse lidt i overfladen. Og hvorfor det er interessant taler Anne Lavendt om med Michael Linden Vørnle, som er astrofysiker og chefkonsulent på institut for rumforskning og rumteknologi på DTU.

Dr. James Rice is the senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona. He is also the geology team leader on the Mars Exploration Rovers Project (which includes Spirit and Opportunity), as well as Co-Investigator on the Athena Science Instruments onboard these rovers. Dr. Rice is joining us today to discuss the recent landing... The post 65. Mars InSight, Mars 2020 Rover Landing Site & Opportunity Rover Update with Dr. James Rice appeared first on 15 Minutes With Chuck - podcast.

Vært: Anders Høeg Nissen Medvirkende: Sanne Wittrup, Mie Stage og Magnus Bredsdorff I denne uges Transformator ser vi først på fjernvarmens fremtid her i Danmark, fordi nye aftaler og afgiftsmodeller i hvert fald i følge nogle parter truer den aktuelle model og kan gøre fjernvarmen dyrere og mindre omstillingsparat. Men spørgsmålet er, om det er godt eller skidt for os – og især for klimaet? Bagefter drager vi ud til Mars, og ser på denne uges afgjort mest spektakulære rumhistorie. InSight Mars-fartøjet landede mandag aften kl 20.54 dansk tid på den røde planet efter en tur på cirka 56 millioner kilometer. Vi ser på missionen, men taler først og fremmest om de såkaldte cubesats, der har været en slags ubesungne hjælpere for helte-fartøjet InSight. Til sidst uddeler vi priserne Ugens Transformer og Ugens Kortslutning – i denne uge handler det bla. om babyer og dataetik. Links Opgør med 100 års grøn dansk tradition: Fjernvarmen risikerer historisk dyk Hjælperyttere i det ydre rum Touchdown: InSight-fartøjet er landet på Mars Solpanelerne er ude, og et travlt Mars-år venter Datatilsynet tav om datalæk fra terapiportal: »Det ville spolere efterforskningen« Verdens første genredigerede babyer født i Kina Ekspertgruppe anbefaler dataetiske offentlige indkøb og ny mærkningsordning Danmark kan gå forrest med banebrydende screeningmetode af grundvandet

It seems everyone and their mother watched the InSight lander touching down on Mars this past monday, and it was impossible to turn on the TV without hearing that the landing phase is a big challenge. But while the news did a good job telling us that it's a daunting problem, they didn't impress just how hard it was to actually solve. Charlie brings in a conference paper by the NASA engineers who made the Mars magic happen. Read the paper, check the news, and play the videogame here.

In this episode, Beth discusses: NASA Lands on Mars (earlier this week) with InSight The who, what, where, when and why this Mars mission, and what it means for us on Earth. The excitement of landing in “the most boring place on Mars.”   Key Takeaways: Entry and decent are the most critical parts of any landing mission. Each landing tells us what we can do new. When we understand what’s around us, it helps us understand our place in space. Happy 20th Birthday, International Space Station! “Looking at Mars planetary history helps define our planetary history.” — Beth Mund   About Beth Mund: Beth’s love for space started as a Space Camp attendee at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where she would return years later as an instructor.  After grad school, Beth worked as a journalist, a technical writer for Motorola, and then went on to serve as a Public Affairs Officer for the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In addition, Beth worked to support the International Space Station program as a communication specialist. In Chicago, Beth worked as a corporate communication advisor to Fortune 50 companies including Allstate and United Airlines. She’s worked as a college instructor, a political advisor, and public relations manager for her hometown city. Beth recently founded Stellar Communications, LLC and travels the country as a keynote speaker- inspiring audiences with her lessons learned from our nation’s space program.  She’s the host of the Casual Space Podcast, and a self-proclaimed space geek.   Connect with Beth Mund: Email: bethisbeth@me.com & askbeth@casualspacepodcast.com Website: bethmund.comFacebook: @BethMund   Show notes by podcastologist: Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

Dr. James Rice is the senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona. He is also the geology team leader on the Mars Exploration Rovers Project (which includes Spirit and Opportunity), as well as Co-Investigator on the Athena Science Instruments onboard these rovers. Dr. Rice is joining us today to discuss the recent landing... The post 65. Mars InSight, Mars 2020 Rover Landing Site & Opportunity Rover Update with Dr. James Rice appeared first on Your Online Coffee Break podcast.

Hosts: Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday, Lucas Randall, Dr. Pamela Gay 00:00:58 What happens when octopuses are given ecstasy? They get... cuddly. 00:07:23 Gene Roddenberry got it right, there IS a planet orbiting the star 40 Eridani. That's where the Star Trek creator said the planet Vulcan would be, homeworld of the pointy-eared logicians. 00:10:23 The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has had a spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Ryugu since the end of June this year. It has now deployed three of its four rovers onto the 1km wide near Earth object. 00:17:00 The failure of a gyroscope onboard the Hubble Space Telescope was a concern for NASA engineers, who scrambled to resurrect a backup gyro. It also raised questions about the future of the telescope, and the its ever-postponed successor the James Webb Space Telescope. 00:33:09 Questions from the audience.   This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre in Carlton, Melbourne. Dr. Pamela Gay is astronomer, podcaster, and artist. She is the co-host of the AstronomyCast podcast and the Director of Technology and Citizen Science at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. She is also the principal investigator of CosmoQuest.org. This episode contains traces of NASA's video detailing all the things that could go wrong with the upcoming InSight Mars landing.

Bu bölümde Nasa'nın yeni geliştirdiği Robotun Mars'a gönderimini konuştuk. Nasa Insight adındaki bu robot Kasım 2018 sonlarına doğru Marsa inişini gerçekleştirecek. Aşağıdaki siteden detaylı bilgilere ulaşabilirsiniz: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/

Bu bölümde Nasa'nın yeni geliştirdiği Robotun Mars'a gönderimini konuştuk. Nasa Insight adındaki bu robot Kasım 2018 sonlarına doğru Marsa inişini gerçekleştirecek. Aşağıdaki siteden detaylı bilgilere ulaşabilirsiniz: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/

The month-long launch window for NASA's new Mars lander, InSight opens this weekend. InSight will be the first spacecraft to use a robotic arm to place its instruments on another planet's soil—effectively unraveling the innards of the Red Planet. It's also the first interplanetary mission to launch from the West Coast instead of Cape Canaveral, and it may not be the last. InSight isn't a rover, like Curiosity or Opportunity, but a stationary lander.

Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you learn something new in just a few minutes: Forget Rovers: NASA's InSight Lander Will Learn About Mars By Sitting Still Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? You Might Have the Most Common Form of Synesthesia See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A few rules for the cleanroom where NASA's new InSight Mars lander waits for launch. One, if you must sneeze, sneeze away from the spacecraft. Two, if you drop anything, let one of NASA's escorts pick it up for you. Three, do not under any circumstances cross the black-and-yellow-striped tape and touch the spacecraft. Oh also—an engineer tells a dozen media in a conference room at Vandenberg Air Force Base—do not lick the spacecraft.

NASA today announced the selection of a Discovery Class mission to Mars called the InSight mission. This telecon has remarks about the mission and questions from the press. The panelists for the briefing are: -- John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington -- James Green, director, NASA's Planetary Science Division, Washington NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth as one of our solar system's rocky planets. The new mission, named InSight, will place instruments on the Martian surface to investigate whether the core of Mars is solid or liquid like Earth's and why Mars' crust is not divided into tectonic plates that drift like Earth's. Detailed knowledge of the interior of Mars in comparison to Earth will help scientists understand better how terrestrial planets form and evolve.