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NASA's InSight lander launches to Mars to study deep interior of planet [i]The first spacecraft dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars is now bound for the Red Planet. NASA's InSight Mars lander, which will try to detect marsquakes and monitor the flow of heat below the Martian surface for the first time, lifted off on Saturday (May 5) from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT or 1105 GMT) liftoff made history as the first launch of a NASA interplanetary mission from the U.S. west coast. Not that spectators in the immediate vicinity could catch sight of that history being made...[/i]
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