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November 26, 2018
NASA’s InSight Mission Triumphantly Touches Down on Mars
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-insight-mission-triumphantly-touches-down-on-mars/

After enduring a high-tension descent from orbit, the spacecraft will now begin its quest to peel back the profound mysteries of the Red Planet’s interior

Beyond developing planetary evolution models, the heat flow measurements will also have implications for understanding if Mars has ever been habitable enough to support life. Some hypotheses suggest that there may be reservoirs of water just below the Martian surface, and the value of the heat flow number could help us understand whether these reservoirs are in a life-giving liquid state or are a not-so-life-giving solid ice.