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Insight is a Mars lander that successfully touched down on Nov 26, 2018. Insight is going to study the interior (core) of Mars

NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratories created the Insight Lander Program to determine what the Martian Core is like

InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. It is the first outer space robotic explorer to study in-depth the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.

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Is InSight capable of cleaning itself?

Previous Mars probes became helpless and unusable after their solar panels became covered in dust. Since InSight, unlike previous or other planned probes, is equipped with a long robotic arm, does it also have a tool such as a brush so it can dust…
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Just how sensitive is the Insight seismometer?

Various news articles reporting the deployment of the heat and wind shield over the Insight seismometer describe it as measuring "vibrations that have an amplitude comparable to the size of an atom." or "tremors smaller than a hydrogen atom!" While…
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InSight and active pinging of Mars

InSight is planned to deploy a seismometer to listen for seismic activity on Mars. Seismometers were deployed on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts. Several spent/discarded stages/modules (ascent modules, S-IVB stages) were used as impactors…
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Why are the two ICC images so different?

This may be a trivial question, but why did the amount of dirt on the ICC lens cover change so much between the two exposures? How much time elapsed between the two images? When will it be safe to remove the lens cover? Is the same cover used to…
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Could InSight flip itself right-side-up?

If something crazy happened during landing, or if something crazy happens now, and InSight ends up flipping over, could it use its arm or other mechanism to right itself?
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