InSight Lander: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- May 5, 2018
- Declared end
- December 15, 2022
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.
Description published by the archive
NASA's InSight Lander mission placed a lander on Mars that deployed a seismometer and a heat-flow probe, along with cameras, a magnetometer, a meteorology experiment, and a radio science experiment.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.insight
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/