An artist's rendition of the proposed InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy & Heat Transport) Lander (© NASA/AP)

NASA is so giddy about Mars it's already planning a trip for 2016

8/21/2012

NASA's Curiosity rover hasn't even been on Mars for a month, and already the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team is preparing to send another probe to the Red Planet. The team is planning to launch the awesomely acronymed InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) in 2016 to explore whether Mars has a liquid or solid core and why its surface isn't made up of plates the way Earth's is. And it's going to be done on a budget — that is, if you consider a price tag of $425 million a deal. We can only wonder what Bobak Ferdowsi's next viral hairstyle will be. [Source]

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