All Shook Up: The InSight Mission to Mars

Published: May 2, 2018, 3 p.m.

b'No mission to Mars has done what InSight will do.\\xa0 The lander\\u2019s spectacularly sensitive instruments will use the Red Planet\\u2019s heat and marsquakes to reveal its deep interior while also revealing secrets of other rocky worlds like our own Earth.\\xa0 Principal Investigator Bruce Banerdt came to Planetary Society headquarters barely a week before launch for a long and fascinating conversation. Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye says the European Space Agency\\u2019s Gaia spacecraft has mapped our galaxy as never before.\\xa0 Bruce Betts will help us explore a bit of the Milky Way in this week\\u2019s What\\u2019s Up segment. Learn more about this week\\u2019s topics and see images here: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0502-bruce-banerdt-insight.html'