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The transportation canister containing NASA's InSight spacecraft is positioned onto a transporter for its move to the Astrotech payload processing facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. In the background is the U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane on which it arrived. The InSight mission is scheduled to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex 3E in March 2016 and land on Mars in September 2016. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will study processes that formed and shaped Mars