thousand kilometers an hour to just eight before it hopefully touches down safely in a few hours time the lander called insight has been almost six months voyage costing billions of the science behind the project and our nervously awaiting to see if that proves to be money well spent the hope is the insight will provide invaluable data from deep been a below the planet s surface. this latest mission to mars is designed to unlock the mysteries of the planet s deep interior researchers like tilman sean are awaiting the data with great anticipation. they hope it will give them a better understanding of how mars developed when it was formed some four and a half billion years ago. just to get through. what we now are bringing to mars of a standardized methods which we measure the earth s interior structure and energy.