NASA Studying 4 Landing Site Options for 2016 Mars Mission
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA is weighing candidate landing sites for its next mission to the surface of Mars, a three-legged InSight probe that will study the Red Planet's core in 2016. The $425 million mission will launch toward Mars in March 2016 and land near the planet's equ