Mars is about to welcome guests from the United States

Mars is about to welcome the first "guest" from the United States in the last 6 years: A geologically autonomous self-propelled ship with 3 legs and a hand called InSight. This ship will deepen and listen to seismic - or "whisper" of the red planet.

After the journey of 484 million km and lasting about 6 months, NASA's InSight is expected to touch the surface of Mars on November 26 and stay for about 1 year over the period of Mars (ie 26 months on Earth).

This will be the first US spacecraft to land on Mars since the Curiosity landed in 2012 and for the first time explore the planet with the Solar System with Earth.

NASA InSight ship.

According to the AP, NASA will use the "fire test" method to bring the machine of a $ 1 billion mission to the surface of Mars. The combustion engine will descend to the final stage and the spacecraft landed on solid legs, similar to those landing in previous successful missions.

InSight's 1.8m-long robotic arm will remove 2 devices from the ship's hull and place it directly on the Martian surface. No previous spacecraft ever made such a mission. A device attempts to penetrate to a depth of 5m, using self-closing nails with a heat sensor to measure the temperature of the Martian heart. This will break the 2.5m depth record of the moon temperature measuring device belonging to Apollo ship explorers nearly half a century ago. Meanwhile, the other device will measure planetary vibration, providing clues to its core.

By exploring from within, scientists can capture the formation and transformation over billions of years of Mars as well as other rocky planets, including the earth and the moon.

Mars is less geologically active than Earth, so its internal structure is almost in its pristine state. According to the head of NASA's scientific mission, Mr. Thomas Zurbuchen, InSight will revolutionize human knowledge of the conditions inside Mars . These insights are important in NASA's attempt to bring people to Mars before 2030.