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    NASA Is Heading Back To Mars To Peer Inside The Red Planet

    The NASA mission is set to launch Saturday morning. The InSight spacecraft will land in the Elysium Planitia to listen for "Marsquakes" and learn more about what Mars is made of.
    by Joe Palca May 04, 2018 2 minutes
    An artist's rendition of NASA's InSight lander, which is expected to launch on Saturday morning. InSight will monitor the Red Planet's seismic activity and internal temperature.

    NASA is heading back to Mars. If all goes well, a two-stage Atlas V 401 will lift off from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday morning. Onboard will be a lander named InSight, an $813.8 million mission to study the interior of the Red Planet.

    Recent Mars mission have snapped pictures of the surface, studied rocks, dug in the dirt and looked for signs sees it, that's just scratching the surface.

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