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NASA to Host Briefing on November Mars InSight Landing NASA's upcoming
landing of the first-ever mission to study the heart of Mars will be the topic
of a media briefing at 1:30 p.m. EDT (10:30 a.m. PDT) Wednesday, Oct. 31 at
NASA Headquarters in Washington. The briefing will air live on NASA Television, the agency's website
and the NASA InSight Facebook page.
NASA's
InSight Mars Lander (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy
and Heat Transport) will land on the Red Planet at approximately 3 p.m. EST
(noon PST) Monday, Nov. 26. InSight will study the deep interior of Mars to
learn how all rocky planets, including Earth and its Moon, formed. The lander's
instruments include a seismometer
to detect marsquakes and a probe to
monitor the flow of heat in the planet's subsurface.
Briefing participants include:
- Lori
Glaze, acting director of the Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters,
Washington
- Bruce
Banerdt, InSight principal investigator, NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
- Tom
Hoffman, InSight project manager at JPL
- Sue
Smrekar, InSight deputy principal investigator at JPL
- Jaime
Singer, InSight instrument deployment lead at JPL
The public can ask questions on Twitter
using the hashtag #askNASA or by leaving a comment on the stream of the event
on the NASA
InSight Facebook page.
For
more information about InSight, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/insight
Follow
the mission on Twitter at:
https://twitter.com/nasainsight
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