PIA22251: C-17 Shipping InSight Mars Spacecraft to Vandenberg Air Force Base


C-17 Shipping InSight Mars Spacecraft to Vandenberg Air Force Base

Caption:

A C-17 cargo aircraft carrying NASA's InSight spacecraft flew from Buckley Air Force Base, Denver, to Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on February 28, 2018. The spacecraft was being shipped from Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, where InSight was built and tested. Its launch period opens May 5, 2018.

InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is the first mission dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars. Its findings will advance understanding of the early history of all rocky planets, including Earth.

Background Info:

JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the InSight Project for NASA s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, built the spacecraft. InSight is part of NASA s Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/insight .

Cataloging Keywords:

Name Value Additional Values
Target Mars
System
Target Type Planet
Mission InSight
Instrument Host InSight Lander
Host Type Lander
Instrument
Detector
Extra Keywords Color
Acquisition Date
Release Date 2018-03-01
Date in Caption 2018-02-28 2018-05-05
Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin Space
Source photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22251
Identifier PIA22251