InSight Prelaunch Briefing

Jason Townsend, NASA's Deputy Social Media Manager, reads questions submitted by online social media followers during a prelaunch media briefing for NASA's InSight mission, Thursday, May 3, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Jason Townsend, NASA's Deputy Social Media Manager, reads questions submitted by online social media followers during a prelaunch media briefing for NASA's InSight mission, Thursday, May 3, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)