NASA’s next Mars mission launches Saturday: Everything you need to know

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On Saturday, NASA will launch its next mission to Mars. This time the lander, known as InSight, is focused squarely on learning more about the inner-workings of the red planet. 

The space agency’s InSight lander is expected to take about seven months between launch and — if all goes well — landing on the planet in November to gather all the data it can about the Martian geology around it and below it.

While the mission probably won’t directly help humans get to Mars in the coming decades, the science InSight is tasked with is still pretty amazing. Read more…

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