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Nasa selects InSight Mars mission after Curiosity rover
Source: BBC News
Just two weeks after landing its Curiosity rover on Mars, the US space agency has announced it will send another robot to the planet in 2016.
The InSight spacecraft will be a static lander that will carry instruments to investigate Mars' deep interior.
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InSight beat two other proposals in a competition to find Nasa's next relatively low-cost mission.
This so-called Discovery class of endeavour is cost-capped at $425m, although that figure does not include the rocket to launch the spacecraft.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19327286