Original air date: Thursday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET, 0300 UTC)

Dig deep into the workings of Earth’s next trip to the Red Planet. InSight, scheduled to launch in May, 2018, will be the first NASA mission to observe the deep interior of Mars and learn about the history and evolution of rocky planets. See the instruments InSight will bring to Mars, including the first seismometer ever taken to the surface of another planet. For more info on InSight, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/insight

Speaker:
Troy Lee Hudson
Technologist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory