Insight was expected to arrive at Mars in September to take measurements of the red planet’s interior and its atmosphere, and to take color images.
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The instruments have been created to measure movements as small as the diameter of an atom.
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NASA’s planetary missions have been on a roll of late, led by the mini-armada of Curiosity, Opportunity, Mars Odyssey, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – all of which continue their scrutiny of the Red Planet.
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It may sound like fiction – and it’s possible the attempt to establish an outpost on Mars may be canceled – but in the meanwhile NASA is still planning for it and sharing its concepts for what the exploration may look like as technology develops.
NASA’s next mission to Mars has been delayed until at least 2018 by a broken vacuum seal on the spacecraft, and the problem could threaten the whole mission.
Scientists thought they had repaired the leak around the seal, but a test on Monday showed that the instrument could not hold its vacuum seal in extreme cold temperatures. RISE, short for Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment, uses the lander’s X-band radio to measure the planet’s spin rate (and any variations in it) very precisely, which will provide additional clues to understanding the Martian interior.
A USA science satellite slated to launch to Mars in March has been grounded due to a leak in a key research instrument, NASA said on Tuesday, creating uncertainty about the future of a widely anticipated effort to study the interior of the planet.
InSight is created to investigate the processes that formed and shaped Mars. The mission’s estimated total cost (including development, launch, and operations) is $675 million, 85% of which has already been spent. The leak, initially discovered at the beginning of December, have proven surprisingly stubborn, and now, John M. Grunsfeld, the associate administrator for NASA’s science directorate says, “we just have run out of time”.
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However, the space agency stated that the cancellation of InSight mission would not affect other Mars missions. The mission will launch during the period March 4 to March 30, 2016, and land on Mars Sept. 28, 2016.
