[june]NASA’S INSIGHT SPACECRAFT Flashcards
1
Q
What?
A
-is part of NASA’s Discovery Program
-the first mission to peer deep beneath the Martian surface, studying the planet’s interior by
measuring its heat output and listening for marsquakes
2
Q
Significance of the mission
A
-Will help in understanding the processes
that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system (including Earth) -> Inner solar system seems like surya javalache je ahet te grah
-It will the planet’s “vital signs”: Its “pulse” (seismology), “temperature” (heat flow probe), and “reflexes” (precision tracking).