NASA will delay its next scheduled Mars mission, the launch of a lander called InSight.
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NASA on Tuesday said it has canceled the March 2016 launch of a space probe that was created to give scientists a deeper look inside Mars.
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To start, they are working in a Martian environment, rather than making the journey all the way to the Red Planet., but the eventual goal is to build a controlled dome on Mars capable of farming this, one of the Earth’s hardiest crops, reports CNBC.
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A leak discovered earlier this year, that prevented it from retaining vacuum conditions, was successfully repaired, and the mission team “was hopeful the most recent fix also would be successful”.
Plans to send a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s remain “on track”, NASA said. Essentially, the lander is purpose-built for sniffing out earthquakes (or “marsquakes”), and can measure movement in the ground as small as the width of an atom.
The SEIS instrument was supplied by the French space agency (CNES), and its president, Jean-Yves Le Gall, argued that the leak could be fixed in time. When it first sprung a leak this summer, researchers thought they’d initially landed on a fix.
“This was going to be our first mission to explore the interior of Mars using the same techniques we used to explore the interior of Earth”, said Grunsfeld. We were very close to succeeding, but an anomaly has occurred, which requires further investigation.
The InSight spacecraft was set for launch in March.
NASA, French seismometer manufacturer Centre National d’Études Spatiales, and spacecraft contractor Lockheed Martin will now spend the next four to six weeks reviewing data and determining how to proceed. However, because of the orbital mechanics for flights between Earth and Mars, affordable launch opportunities come around only every 26 months.
The International Potato Center (known as “CIP”, the acronym of its Spanish name “Centro Internacional De La Papa”)-a tuber and root farming organization-has announced it is combining forces with NASA to form a research project meant to demonstrate the potato’s potential by eventually cultivating the food on Earth in soils similar to what now exists on the Red Planet. With the launch date looming and not enough time to address the issue, NASA scientists had to make a hard decision.
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NASA will hold a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. PST (3:30 p.m. EST) today to provide details on the agency’s decision.
