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LOMPOC, Calif. — NASA’s InSight Mars lander is about to launch to the Red Planet atop an Atlas V rocket in May 2018.

Short for “Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport,” InSight is designed to study the inner-workings of Mars. The spacecraft is currently targeting a launch at the beginning of a two-hour window opening at 4:05 a.m. PDT (7:05 a.m. EDT / 11:05 GMT) May 5, 2018.

The probe is expected to land on a flat plain on Mars called Elysium Planitia in about six months on Nov. 26, 2018.

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