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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory InSight instrument deployment lead Jaime Singer, on screen, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory InSight deputy principal investigator Sue Smrekar, left, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory InSight principal investigator Bruce Banerdt,

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory InSight project manager Tom Hoffman, and NASA Headquarters acting director of the Planetary Science Division Lori Glaze, right, discuss the NASA InSight Mars Lander (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) during media briefing, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. InSIght will land on the Red Planet at approximately 3 p.m. EST (noon PST) Monday, Nov. 26. InSight will study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all celestial bodies with rocky surfaces, including Earth and the Moon, formed. The lander’s instruments include a seismometer to detect marsquakes and a probe to monitor the flow of heat in the planet's subsurface.