NASA InSight Mission To Mars To Study Movement In Planet's Core

The next mission to Mars won't land a rover or drop off any humans to create a colony but rather it will give researchers a better idea of what the Red Planet's interior is like. The spacecraft that will land and stay stationary on Mars, called InSight, is currently set to launch in the five weeks following May 5, 2018, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The mission was selected by NASA out of 28 proposals for possible missions to conduct in the solar system. The mission is important because Mars could offer information about the formation and early years of rocky planets better than Earth could. This could help researchers better understand other newer planets or even exoplanets.