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InSight Final Flight Installation of Heatshield
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InSight Final Flight Installation of Heatshield

NASA / KSC · 2018-04-12 · photograph (digital archive)

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In the Astrotech facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the heatshield is placed on NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, Mars lander prior to encapsulation in its payload fairing. InSight will be the first mission to look deep beneath the Martian surface. It will study the planet's interior by measuring its heat output and listen for marsquakes.

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InSightGeodesy and Heat TransportNASAJPLJet Propulsion LaboratoryLSPLaunch Services ProgramULAUnited Launch AllianceAtlas V-401SLC-3EVAFB
Credit lineInSight Final Flight Installation of Heatshield. NASA/KSC, 2018-04-12. Public domain. ID: VAFB-20180412-PH_ANT01_0011.
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