InSight?
How did they get Insight as an Acronym of Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport - I reckon it's IEUSIGAHT
NASA has announced that its next Mars lander, the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight), has started its pre-flight tests to ensure it can survive launch and the long schlep to the Red Planet. InSight is due to launch and reach Mars next year. When it arrives, one of its chores …
How did they get Insight as an Acronym of Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport - I reckon it's IEUSIGAHT
They use the LAFLOTMIFANA process: Leaving A Few Letters Out To Make It Fit A Neat Acronym.
Or Find Useless but Comical Keywords In Terminology. Any one will do :)
"So what's it going to do for the other 8 years it will actually continue working for?"
It'll sit there muttering repeatedly to itself "Here I am, brain the size of a RAD5500, and they ask me to measure a wobbly planet then hit it with a hammer..."
So what's it going to do for the other 8 years it will actually continue working for?
Maybe fix the other Mars vehicles out there? That's what I would do, one robot to do work and a maintenance kit for the other ones. I would just to see just how many Mars miles you can get out of good engineering before it it really is dead.
Unless AmanfroMars is at home, of course.