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NASA Probe Will Measure Marsquakes to Study Martian Interior

HeadlineNov 28, 2018

And NASA’s InSight mission has landed on Mars. InSight will explore the interior of the Red Planet with the most sensitive seismometer ever built into a space probe. NASA engineers erupted into applause Monday as InSight made its landing after shedding its 12,000 mile-per-hour velocity to reach the surface safely in just under seven minutes. It’s the eighth successful landing on Mars by a NASA spacecraft.

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