[june]NASA’S INSIGHT SPACECRAFT Flashcards

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What?

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-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

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Significance of the mission

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-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).

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