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March 09, 2016

Mars robot launch now scheduled for May 2018: NASA
Washington (AFP) March 9, 2016
The launch of a robot that will delve deep beneath the surface of Mars has been rescheduled for May 5, 2018, US space agency NASA said Wednesday. The InSight lander was originally set to launch this month but that had to be scrapped because of a problem with a seismometer provided by France's space agency CNES. InSight's primary goal is to study how the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth, formed and evolved. It will help determine whether the core of the red planet is solid or li ... read more

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