NASA's Delayed Mars Lander Will Launch in 2018

A mission to study the inner workings of Mars is now set to launch in the spring of 2018, NASA announced today (Sept. 2). The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, was originally scheduled to launch in March 2016, but NASA delayed the launch indefinitely due to a serious structural problem with one of the probe's two science instruments. Now, scientists with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been tasked with fixing the problem before the 2