Which of the following space agencies has suspended the 2016 InSight Mars mission?
Which of the following space agencies has suspended the 2016 InSight Mars mission?
[A]Roscosmos
[B]NASA
[C]CNSA
[D]JAXA
NASA
Recently, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has suspended the 2016 InSight Mars mission due to vacuum leak in critical seismometer instrument. It was scheduled to lift off in March 2016. The acronym of space craft InSight is ‘Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport’. The mission was designed to help scientists to learn more about the formation of rocky planets, including Earth. Mars InSight lander designed to examine the geology of Mars in depth.
