InSight is a
robotic Mars
lander manufactured in the 2010s which was originally planned for launch in March 2016. The name is a
backronym for
Interior Exploration using
Seismic
Investigations,
Geodesy and
Heat
Transport. Due to the failure of its SEIS instrument prior to launch, NASA announced in December 2015 that the mission had been postponed for a minimum of two years.