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February 11, 2014

US, France sign deal for 2016 Mars lander
Washington (AFP) Feb 11, 2014
The United States and France Monday unveiled plans to collaborate on a new Mars mission, two years after NASA withdrew from a European partnership to send a probe and lander to the Red Planet. The project aims to send an unmanned lander to study the deep interior of the dry, dusty planet that is Earth's neighbor, and will be called InSight, short for the Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport. The agreement was signed by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden ... read more

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