Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat
Transport) spacecraft is a NASA Mars mission that may be launched
in March 2016. It is part of the NASA Discovery Program
aim of the mission is:
Seek to understand the evolutionary formation of rocky planets,
including Earth, by investigating the interior structure and
processes of Mars.
the dynamics of Martian tectonic activity and meteorite impacts,
which could offer clues about such phenomena on Earth.
mission is similar in design to the Phoenix Mars lander used
successfully in 2007 to study ground ice near the north pole of
* Just two
weeks after landing its Curiosity rover on Mars, NASA the US space
agency announced it will send another robot to the planet in 2016.
The previous USA mission was the Mars Science Laboratory aka
Mars: The Inside Story of the Red Planet by
Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest
Book of Mars by Joseph M. Boyce
Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World by
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