NASA has sent a $ 850 million exercise on Mars that could reveal clues to an outstanding mystery of our solar system.

• Insight Lander managed to land on Mars yesterday and is NASA's biggest exercise in nature.
• The $ 850-million exercise aims to study the inner structure of Mars and dig deeper than ever before.
• Watch the video above to discover how Insight will reveal clues to one of the most remarkable mysteries of our solar system.

Here is a transcript of the video.

NASA is poised to innovate like never before by sending a giant exercise on Mars. It's the biggest drill that NASA has ever sent into space, and it will dig deeper than ever in Mars. The mission? Discover clues about one of the most remarkable mysteries of our solar system.

NASA's InSight Lander is the first to be designed to study the inner structure of Mars. Until now, NASA's landers focused primarily on exploring the surface of Mars in search of potential signs of life. They landed near volcanoes, valleys and canyons. But InSight will not go anywhere else because InSight is not a mobile and can not move. NASA has a chance to reach it in the perfect place here! Elysium Planitia, sometimes referred to as the largest parking on Mars. This is one of the simplest places NASA could find and the perfect place for InSight. First of all, it's close to the equator, guaranteeing the solar panels that InSight's instruments will work year-round for its nearly two-year mission. But above all, this smooth surface will allow the InSight drill to sink deep into the Martian soil.

The drill works like a motorized nail and sinks into the ground. Over 40 days, the drill will reach 16 feet on the planet. It's about the length of a car. As a comparison, NASA's Curiosity Rover carve only about half an inch deep. This is the length of an aspirin pill. As InSight digs, there may be bursts of heat. By calculating how quickly heat warms the soil, InSight can measure the chemical composition of the soil. But the InSight exercise has a dual purpose. By breaking loose, it also sends vibrations through the ground, which are sensitive to different layers that could hide under the surface. For example, if Mars has underground lava flows, these vibrations will find them. But this only gives clues to NASA on the shallower layers of Mars. To understand the deep inner core, InSight has another tool that measures how many times Mars is wobbling on its axis. It works like an egg. If you spin an uncooked egg, the liquid yellow will move and cause the egg to sway. But if the interior is cooked, there is less flickering. Likewise, how many sags in Mars can tell us if its nucleus is a molten liquid or solid metal?

And all these clues can help scientists solve a greater mystery of the formation of rocky planets such as Mars and Earth. By studying inside Mars, scientists can better understand how Mars has evolved over billions of years, pbading from a hot and humid world to the desolate landscape that it is today. 39; hui. But there is an even bigger goal on the horizon. In the end, the more we know about our own solar system, the better we can find other planets beyond our solar system that could potentially harbor life.

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