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NASA reschedules troubled Mars InSight mission to 2018

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Instrument problems prevented Martian lander from launching in March 2016 as planned.

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Witze, A. NASA reschedules troubled Mars InSight mission to 2018. Nature (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.19545

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