InSight Mission Team Gathers Before Mars Landing

Employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory gather on Nov. 26, 2018, to watch InSight land on Mars.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, Colorado built the spacecraft. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.