NASA says more than 2. 4M people signed up to send their names to Mars
NASA says an additional 1.6 million people signed up to send their names to Mars after the space agency reopened the opportunity up in October.
The additional 1.6 million names come on top of the original 827,000 who signed up to send their names to the Red Planet aboard the InSight lander in 2018. NASA offered a similar program for its Orion spacecraft in 2014, which 1.38 million people signed up for. The period to sign up closed on Nov. 2.
“InSight will be the first mission to look deep beneath the Martian surface, studying the planet’s interior by listening for marsquakes,” NASA writes in a news release of the mission set to launch in May 2018.
“These quakes travel through geologic material at different speeds and give scientists a glimpse of the composition and structure of the planet’s inside. The insights into how Mars formed will help us better understand how other rocky planets are created.”
The lander will release a “self-hammering” probe that will dig deeper into Mars’ surface than ever before, the space agency says in a release. The mission has the goal of improving NASA’s understanding of the formation, evolution and history of rocky planets, which includes…
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