NASA and its partners are going to start with the construction of a new Marslander. The new lander, as soon as he was on the planet’s lands, including drilling into the ground, then various types of data to collect, such as how the crust, mantle and core of Mars are put together.
The lander is part of NASA’s InSight mission, which should take place in march 2016. The purpose of the mission is to get more insight in the rocky planets of our solar system. The NASA data that comes from InSight and then use it for manned missions to Mars, which from 2030 to take place.
NASA has let us know that the plan of the lander Friday the Design Review of the mission has been met. In such a ‘review’ is mostly considered to points as feasibility, quality of the personnel, risks, budget and timetable of a project. The construction of the lander is in the hands of air – and ruimtevaartfabrikant Lockheed Martin. For the development of the new, three-legged lander is according to NASA looks at the Phoenix lander, which was launched in 2007. The two differ, however, also. Stu Spath, chief of the InSight mission, says that one of the reasons for this is that the mission of the new lander 630 days longer than Phoenix.
The new lander will be around the equator of Mars countries and for the research that he’s going to run equipped with a robotic arm that various count – and measuring instruments on the surface of the planet can drop. The two main types of instruments of the lander, the robotic arm and the graafinstrumenten, are from the space agencies of France and Germany.
The space agencies of Switzerland and the United Kingdom will be a seismograph for the mission building, that each vibration of the ground, caused by marsbevingen or meteorite impacts, can be measured. The robotic arm of the lander, will be a protective dome over the seismograph hack the way, so that this as little as possible affected by wind and temperature. The agency of Germany will also be a tool to build that warmtegolven, coming from the core of the planet, can detect and measure. The robotic arm ensures that the thermometer itself to a depth of 3 to 5 yards in to dig, equivalent to about 3 to more than 4.5 metres.
There will be an experiment to take place where the radioconnectie between InSight and NASA’s Deep Space Network antennas is used to prevent irregularities in the rotation of Mars to detect. This allows the scientists might determine whether the planet has a liquid or solid core. The Spanish space agency, is wind – and thermometers for the lander build, that the wind speed and temperature at the landing site will track. Also they will have a magnetometer to develop, that magnetic disturbances caused by the ionosphere of Mars, can be measured.
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