InSight Prelaunch Briefing

Stephanie Smith, Digital & Social Media Supervisor, Jet Propulsion Laboratory moderates a prelaunch media briefing for the NASA InSight mission, Thursday, May 3, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the "inner space" of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)