Music, hello and welcome, everybody, to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. We're here today to talk about NASA's next mission to Mars, the InSight Lander. We're a little over a month from launch, so we're getting pretty excited here. I'm Shari Cook of JPL's Media Relations office, and I'm going to be your moderator here for the news conference today. We've got a great group of people who will help tell you what makes InSight special, so I'm going to introduce them to you right now. Right here, we've got Bruce Banner. He is InSight's principal investigator. Next to him is Tom Hoffman. He's InSight's project manager. And in a very special location at JPL, where we try and test our robots in a Mars-like environment before we actually send them to Mars, is Jamie Singer. She's InSight's instrument deployment lead. But to kick us off today, we have a very special pre-recorded message from Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters. He's going to tell us how InSight is a game-changer for Mars exploration and our understanding of the planet. Good afternoon. Ready for NASA science programs here at the agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C. Today, you'll hear about our next journey to the Red Planet, a Lander called InSight. The first mission to study the interior of Mars, something never done in the exploration of this planet. A dictionary definition of insight is to see the inner nature of something. InSight will do just that. In essence, it will take the vital signs of Mars: its pulse, temperature, and much more. We like to say it's the first thorough checkup since the planet formed four-and-a-half billion years ago. We've been studying Mars with orbiters, Landers, and Rovers for years now,...
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