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Description	English: PIA19404: Heat Shield Construction for NASA's InSight Mission http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19404 In this February 2015 scene from a clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, specialists are building the heat shield to protect NASA's InSight spacecraft when it is speeding through the Martian atmosphere. InSight, for Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is scheduled to launch in March 2016 and land on Mars in September 2016. The lander will investigate the deep interior of Mars to gain information about how rocky planets, including Earth, formed and evolved. The InSight Project is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Date	1 February 2015
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA19404.jpg
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin

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